340 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



One in the possession of Admiral Oxley of Ripon is said 

 to have been obtained in that neighbourhood, but no details 

 are forthcoming as to the date of its occurrence, nor of that 

 of a specimen stated by Mr. Thomas Bunker (MS.), to have 

 been caught by the keeper at Ousefleet Grange. 



Mr. Matthew Bailey of Flamborough has supplied the 

 particulars of a specimen obtained near Flamborough ; from 

 this commimication the following account is condensed : — 

 The bird, a fine old female, had frequented the neighbourhood 

 for some weeks, baffling all attempts made to shoot it, until 

 23rd January 1877, when it was observed by the gamekeeper 

 of the Rev. Lloyd Greame, of Sewerby Hall, to kill a full-grown 

 rabbit, which it had carried about twenty yards when he shot 

 at but missed it. Concealing himself in an adjoining wood 

 the keeper had not long to wait, as the bird soon returned 

 and was killed. This bird, Mr. Bailey informs me, is now in 

 the collection of Sir Vauncey Crewe, Bart. 



In the collection of Mr. A. Clapham of Scarborough are 

 four Yorkshire specimens, and I am indebted to the owner 

 for the following information relating to them : — An adult 

 female, brought to him in the flesh in the spring of 185-, 

 which had been taken by Lady Downe's keeper at Wykeham. 

 A young male in singular " cuckoo " plumage, trapped on 

 the Lockton INIoors, near Pickering, in Jmie 1864 (mistaken 

 for an Iceland Falcon, Zool. 1864, p. 9244). A mature female, 

 obtained through D. Graham of York, in Mowbraydale above 

 Malton ; Mr. Clapham has imfortunately misplaced the 

 memorandum of the date. An adult female trapped on a 

 rabbit warren near Harrogate on 15th April 1871. 



In addition to these, Mr. Clapham has examined four or 

 five others obtained in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, 

 and remarks that, with one or two exceptions, these passed 

 through the hands of the late A. Roberts, who stated that he 

 had preserved, since the year 1864, no fewer than five birds of 

 this species, obtained principally from Seamer and Wykeham. 

 Mr. A. Young, keeper, Blankney, formerly of Seamer, informs 

 me {in litt. February 1904), that two of these specimens are 

 in his possession. 



