368 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



April, when a male was shot near Doncaster, which was 

 reported to the Linnean Society at its meeting on ist May 

 1832 (" Transactions," xvii. p. 533), in a letter from Mr. H. 

 S. Foljambe. Four specimens were shot in Norfolk during 

 the following month. 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : — 



Falco rufipes. — Red-footed Falcon — I have notice of five instances 

 of the capture of this bird ; F. O. Morris says that a pair were shot 

 near Doncaster, and a female at Rossington ; the latter specimen is 

 stated by Hugh Reid of Doncaster to be in the possession of W. R. Read, 

 Esq., of York ; a fourth, a female, was shot a few years back near 

 Easingwold, and sent to H. Chapman of York, with a message that 

 " if it was a Cuckoo " he was to stuff it, and return it to the person who 

 shot it, but, if it was not a Cuckoo, when stuffed he might keep it for 

 his pains ; the fifth specimen was shot on 6th May last, at Stainer Wood, 

 near Selby, and is in the possession of Massey Hutchinson of Selby. 



Since 1830 it is reported to have been obtained on the 

 following different occasions. One in the Sheffield Museum, 

 said to have been killed in that neighbourhood, is recorded 

 in the Zoologist (1843, p. 247), by J. Heppenstall. 



In May 1844 a fine female was shot in Stainer Wood, near 

 Selby, by a gamekeeper of the Right Hon. E. R. Petre. It 

 passed into the possession of Mr. Massey Hutchinson of Selby 

 {op. cit. 1844, p. 654). 



Thomas Alhs, in his Report, recapitulated the foregoing, 

 and added two other occurrences. 



A female in mature plumage was shot from a ship entering 

 the mouth of the Humber in November 1864, as it hovered 

 over the vessel. This specimen came into the possession of 

 the late W. W. Boulton of Beverley, in the flesh, and was 

 recorded by that gentleman in the Zoologist (1865, p. 9415). 



Mr. J. E. Harting in his " Handbook of British Birds " 

 (2nd Ed. p. 324), mentions that a mature male occurred at 

 Bempton Cliffs on 6th July 1865. Mr. J. Whitaker of Rain- 

 worth Lodge, Mansfield, informs me that he purchased this 

 specimen for his collection. 



In the collection of Mr. T. Machen of Bridlington there is 

 a mature male, obtained at Bempton by Mr. R. Morris on 

 i8th June 1869 (Cordeaux, " Birds of the Humber District "). 



