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In a chemist's window at Argeles-Vieuzac I saw a stulfed 

 Goshawk. 



73. MiLvus MIGRANS (Bodd.). 



Kites were watching the river below Larruns and arriving 

 from Spain by way of Eaux-Chaudes, nine in a string, flying 

 high. This was May 26th. I believe they were Black 

 Kites, although one of those flapping low over the water was 

 rather too large and. too red for M. migrans. A pair of un- 

 questionable Black Kites haunted the Pic de Gez above 

 Argeles in company with Ravens and Kestrels. They robbed 

 tlie farmer below of his chickens. 



What may be considered the normal range northward of 

 the Black Kite ?* I have seen them fishing on the Rhine at 

 Mainz, and in May 1891 one was beating slowly along the 

 tide's edge close to Mont St. Michel. 



74. Falco jEsalon, Tunstall. 



On June 7th a solitary jNIerlin was hunting the broken 

 rocks cropping out through the snow at the watershed of the 

 Port de Gavarnie on the look-out for the Snow-Finches and 

 Water-Pipits. 



75. Falco peregrinus, Tunstall. 



The birds which I have mentioned as having been seen 

 killing an Alpine Chough, stooping upon Ravens and Egyp- 

 tian Vultures, were what I should have called Peregrines in 

 England ; but the question of species is complicated in the 

 Pyrenees, I understand, by the occasional presence and. 

 breeding of some hitherto unidentified Falcon. 



I myself saw on the wing over the housetops of Toulouse 

 a Falcon which puzzled me ; it was neither Kestrel, Hobby, 

 nor Merlin, was of the make and carriage of a male Peregrine, 

 but seemed a size too small. 



There is a stuffed Hobby in the Museum at Eaux-Bonnes. 



I have seen plenty of true Peregrines (stuffed) in the 



* [Finland and Archangel. Several have been obtained in Normandy. 

 — H. Saunders.] 



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