352 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



where a fisherman, observing it fall dead on the deck, picked 

 it up and brought it to me for identification. 



In August 1902 the gamekeeper at Aske, near Richmond, 

 killed an immature individual while in the act of carrying off 

 a Wood Pigeon. For this information I am indebted to the 

 Marquis of Zetland, in whose possession the specimen now is. 

 I may state that I have been at some pains to ascertain the 

 correctness of this incident, and the identity of the specimen. 



The stomach of one which occurred at Flamborough on 

 2nd June 1855, was found to be full of worms and slugs 

 {Zool. 1855, p. 4761), and the crop of an individual killed at 

 Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, on 28th May 1874, contained 

 a young bird and egg shells of the Mistle Thrush {op. cit. 

 1874, p. 4153)- It will be observed that the Flamborough 

 example, referred to above, was in pursuit of a Pigeon, and, 

 in confirmation of this departure from the bird's usual 

 habits, it may be repeated that the specimen obtained at Aske, 

 near Richmond, in August 1902, was in the act of carrying 

 off a Wood Pigeon. 



Almost every known phase of plumage in the Honey 

 Buzzard has occurred in the county ; melanic examples are 

 recorded from Seamer in the spring of 1869, and Bridlington 

 in the " seventies " ; the latter specimen was picked up on 

 the shore, and is in the possession of Mr. Forster. A dove- 

 coloured individual was obtained in 1869 at Scarborough, 

 and another at Redcar on 3rd October 1903. 



GREENLAND FALCON. 



Faico candicans {y. F. Gmelin) 



Accidental visitant, from Iceland, Greenland, arctic North America, 

 and northern Asia, of extremely rare occurrence. 



The confusion that formerly prevailed among ornithologists 

 with regard to the specific identification of the Northern 

 Falcons is now a thing of the past, and has resulted in the 



