170. 
PPT. 
073: 
BIRDS. 45 
Beningborough Park, near York, one trapped, Jan. 1838 
(Wood’s Nat., 1838, ili. p. 214). 
Hunmanby, one shot July 24, 1844, now in the Scarborough 
Museum (Birds of Yorkshire, p. 2). 
East Riding: ‘Arthur Strickland reports that one has been 
killed’ (Allis, 1844). 
Kildale, one shot on Court Moor, Christmas, 1851, now in 
the collection of Capt. Turton, of Upsall Castle (Birds of 
Yorkshire, p. 2). 
Skerne, near Driffield, a female in first year’s plumage, shot 
Dec. 1861, nowin the Norwich Museum (Cordeaux, Birds 
of Humber, p. 1). 
Thornton, near Pickering, one shot in 1864 (Birds of York- 
shire, p. 3). 
Haliaetus albicilla (Z.). Sea-Eagle. 
Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, most frequent in the 
winter and on the coast, but not confined to it. All the 
specimens known to have occurred were in immature 
plumage, but a bird shot at Castle Howard in 1841 had 
only two or three feathers of the tail tipped with black, 
having only these to lose in order to attain to mature 
plumage ; it is now in the Leeds Museum. 
Astur palumbarius (Z.). Goshawk. 
Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in spring and autumn ; 
has been observed once or twice in winter,and is most 
frequent on the coast and its vicinity. 
. Accipiter nisus (Z.). Sparrow-Hawk. 
Resident, generally distributed, fairly numerous; observed 
on the coast as a regular autumn immigrant. 
Milvus ictinus Sazvzgny. Kite. 
Casual visitant, of very rare occurrence ; formerly resident, 
and probably numerous, but there is positive evidence of its 
nesting in two instances only. These are Edlington 
Wood, where a pair were taken from the nest by Hugh 
Reid, about 1824; and Murton Wood, near Hawnby, 
where, early in the present century, Mr. Charles Harrison 
shot the female off the nest, also obtaining the male. 
