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and May, and once shot one near Santa Quaranta in the winter 

 of 1857. 



18. Little Kestrel. {Tinnunculus cenchris.) 



Visits Corfu and the mainland in spring. I killed a specimen 

 near Prevesa on the 20th of March, 1857, and bought a good 

 pair in the Corfu market in the month of April of the following 

 year. This and the following species are seen in small flocks 

 of from five to ten or twelve, and appear to feed exclusively on 

 insects. 



19. Orange-legged Hobby. {Erythrojms vespertinus.) 

 Arrives in Corfu, occasionally in great numbers, about the 



latter end of April. In the spring of 1857 I did not hear of, or 

 see, more than two specimens in the Corfu market ; but in April 

 1858 this species was very abundant in the Ionian Islands, 

 particularly at Fano, a small rocky island to the north of Corfu, 

 celebrated as a favourite resting-place for immense flights of 

 quails during their vernal migration. This Hawk appears to be 

 very fearless of man. I have watched a flock of five or six for 

 upwards of an hour, during which time they often approached 

 within ten or fifteen yards of where I sat, though I was in no 

 way concealed. As far as my own observation goes, this species 

 only remains for a few days in Corfu on its passage northwards. 

 I have never heard of its occurrence in the island except in 

 April and May. The stomach of a specimen which I saw 

 skinned contained the remains of large night-flying moths. 

 Both this species and the Common Hobby are to be observed on 

 the wing as late as 8 or 9 p.m. This bird often alights on the 

 ground, and runs with great ease and speed. 



20. Goshawk. {Astur palumharius.) 



Not very common. I have observed it twice only in Epirus : 

 the first time near Kinouria, where it stooped at a woodcock 

 which I had wounded ; this was on the 29th of December, 1857 ; 

 and again at Butrinto, on the 2nd of January, 1858. Both these 

 were immature specimens. I saw a fine pair of Goshawks 

 stuffed at Santa Maura in March 1857, which had been killed 

 in that island not many weeks before. I am told that this 

 species is common and breeds in Albania proper, Montenegro, 



