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I am indebted to Mr. E. P. Butterfield of Wilsden for 

 information relating to a pair of Montagu's Harriers and 

 their young, now in the possession of Mr. Dalton, which were 

 obtained from a nest on Barden Moor, in Wharfedale, on 

 I2th July i860. The nest was placed somewhere on the 

 site now occupied by the reservoir of the Bradford Corpor- 

 ation (see also Nat. 1905, pp. 60-87). 



Mr. J. H. Gurney reported, on the authority of Mr. Jones 

 of Bridlington Quay, that a pair and their nestling young 

 were captured near Bridlington in the year 1871. 



The nesting of this species at Stockton-on-the-Forest, 

 near York, is announced in the Zoologist (1880, pp. 362, 445, 

 512). A bird, supposed to be a Montagu's Harrier, was 

 flushed from some cover, where a nest containing one egg was 

 found ; the egg was compared with others and pronounced 

 to be that of C. cineraceus. 



The most recent instance of its attempting to breed in 

 Yorkshire occurred in the present year (1906), when a nest 

 with two eggs was discovered on a moor in the extreme south 

 of the county ; the female bird being, unfortunately, captured 

 at the nest. 



As a casual visitant and autumn migrant, I have been 

 able to obtain very little information of its occurrence, the 

 following being all that has been placed on record or com- 

 municated to me : — 



J. Grey recorded in the Zoologist (1845, p. 1054), 3- P^ir 

 near Guisborough in 1845, which passed into the collection 

 of Mr. C. Newby of Stockton-on-Tees. 



An adult male, in the collection of Mr. A. Clapham of 

 Scarborough, was killed in a quarry near Garforth at Christmas 

 1846 ; and he has had sent him several specimens by the 

 gamekeeper at Skipwith Manor, near York. 



One at Escrick, about the 15th October 1849, was recorded 

 in the Zoologist (1850, p. 2649), by Dr. Morris. 



A fine old male was taken near Brompton, Northallerton, 

 in the year 1856 {op. cit. 1856, p. 5251). 



On iqth June 1867, an adult female was obtained on 

 Kilnsea Warren, by John Clubley, and preserved by Mr. 



