346 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Near Ackworth, Major Arundel mentions a single occur- 

 rence in 185 I. 



The late James Varley of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, 

 mentioned (MS.), that he saw one on the wing near that place 

 in the summer of 1853. 



In the Zoologist (1859, p. 6561), the late A. Roberts of 

 Scarborough recorded one, a male in iine plumage, near that 

 town in the spring of 1859. 



Mr. Christy Horsfall of Horsforth Low Hall wrote {op. cit. 

 1863, p. 8441), that a specimen of the Kite had frequented 

 the woods there for eighteen months previous to the date of 

 his communication, and was still there on 2nd January 1863. 



About 1864 a Kite captured by Mr. R. Hill near Newholme 

 was stuffed by J. Kitching of Whitby. 



In the Loftus and Staithes district one is mentioned as 

 having occurred in 1868, at Highfields. 



At Stainsacre, near Whitby, an example was caught about 

 1877-78, by a person named Wedgewood. 



An adult female, now in the Hull Museum, was taken near 

 Ripon, in the spring of 1877. 



One of these birds was observed to fly in from seaward 

 at the Teesmouth, on 15th September 1883, and alight on the 

 vane of an old lighthouse — which at that time stood on the 

 Tees sands — where it was eventually captured. I had an 

 opportunity of examining the specimen in the flesh at G. 

 Mussell's, who preserved it for the Middlesbrough Museum. 



The latest occurrence of which I have notice relates to a 

 female example, measuring 2 feet 4 inches in length, secured 

 at Flamborough, on 15th October 1901, and identified by Mr. 

 T. Machen of Bridlington, who has kindly supplied me with 

 the above facts. 



The Kite has also been obtained or has occurred as follows, 

 but unfortunately without any indication of date : — 



The late P. Inchbald mentioned it as occurring rarely 

 near Halifax (Huddersfield Catalogue, 1859). 



The late A. Roberts of Scarborough stated that four 

 specimens have passed through his hands for preservation, 

 all obtained near Seamer ; one of these was then in the 



