160. 
161. 
162. 
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Yorkshire, one (Pennant, B. Zool., 1768, 1. 157). 
Horton, near Bradford, one, about 1824 (Denny, Leeds Cat.). 
Harrogate, one taken alive in the summer of 1832 (Allis). 
Probably an escape. 
Off Flamborough Head, one captured alive (Hawkridge, 
Wood’s Nat., 1838, p. 155). 
Greetland, near Halifax, one seen, Nov. 1845 (Birds of York- 
shire, p. 50). 
Ilkley, one captured on Rombalds Moor, July, 1876 (Birds 
of Yorkshire, p. 51). Probably an escape. 
Scarborough, one seen Oct. 30, 1879 (Clarke, Zool., 1880, p. 
358). 
The specimen recorded by Morris (B. Birds, 1851, 1. 181) as 
shot at Clifton Castle, near Bedale, proves on investigation 
to be an escape from Hornby Castle. 
Athene noctua (feéz.). Little Owl. 
Accidental visitant, from Continental Europe, of extremely 
rare occurrence. Has been recorded as a Yorkshire bird 
by Pennant (1768), by Berkenhout (1778), by Fothergill 
(1799), by Yarrell (1843), and by subsequent writers, and 
as late as Prof. Newton’s edition of Yarrell (1871), but 
with an entire absence of particulars as to localities and 
dates. It is supposed to have occurred near Halifax 
(Leyland, 1828). 
Sub-order ACCIPITRES. 
Fam. VULTURIDZ. 
Gyps fulvus (Gme/.). Griffon Vulture. 
Neophron percnopterus (Z.). Egyptian Vulture. 
Fam. FALCONIDA. 
163. Circus zruginosus (Z.). Marsh-Harrier. 
Casual visitant, of extremely rare occurrence; formerly nested 
in one or two localities. At the commencement of the 
present century this species bred commonly in the ‘carrs’ 
round Doncaster and Hatfield, and occasionally in the 
