316 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
The following quotation from PENNANT may be interesting :— 
‘‘ This species breeds in the rocks of Llandudno, in Carnarvon- 
shire. That promontory has been long famed for producing 
a generous kind, as appears by a letter extant in Gloddaeth 
Library, from the Lord Treasurer Burleigh to an ancestor of 
Sir Roger Mostyn, in which his Lordship thanks him for a 
present of a fine cast of Hawks taken on those rocks, which 
belong to the family;” and a little further on ‘‘ their flight is 
amazingly rapid; one that was reclaimed by a gentleman in 
the Shire of Angus, a County on the East side of Scotland, 
eloped from his master, with two heavy bells to each foot, on 
the Twenty-fourth of September, 1772, and was killed on the 
morning of the Twenty-sixth, near Mostyn, Flintshire.” (Brit. 
Zool., New Ed. 1812, vol i., p. 220.) 
Falco subbuteo. Hoppy. 
OrMEROD in his Aistory of Cheshire (vol. ii., p. 108), writing 
of Delamere Forest, quotes from the Harl. MSS., 2115, 232, the 
‘original plea of Richard Done of Utkinton,” in which he 
‘*claymeth to have all Sparhawks, Marlens, and Hobbys founde 
within the said forest.” 
Mr. W. Cox, Taxidermist, Liverpool, tells me that he has 
preserved a specimen shot at Oulton Park. 
In Wirral “is occasionally obtained in spring (?) and autumn, 
in Burton and elsewhere.” (Br. p. 4.) 
Mr. Ruppy says that it occasionally occurs in his district in 
winter; and, on BrecKwitTH’s authority, that a specimen was 
killed at Brynkinallt, Chirk, in the autumn of 1880. Sir PyERs 
Mostyn has one in the Talacre Collection. 
Price states that ‘‘a Hobby was shot many years ago, near 
Llanwdden Windmill.” (Llandudno, p. 104.) 
Falco vespertinus. ReEp-rooTED FAtcon. 
Mrz. Ruppy tells me on BECKWITH’s authority, that one was 
killed at Wrexham, in May, 1868. (See Fze/d, May 23rd, 1868.) 
* Falco cesalon. MER LIN. 
Not uncommon. A male specimen was shot on the Eaton 
Estate, February 15, 1888, and presented to the Grosvenor 
Museum by the late Lorp RoBERT GROSVENOR. 
In Wirral : ‘‘ migratory, appearing here in spring and autumn. 
A few remain all winter in the Dee Marshes, occasionally killing 
the Ring Doves which go there.” (Br. p. 4.) 
Occasionally during winter in the marshy district of Thornton 
and Ince [R.N.]- 
In Wales it breeds on the moors, ¢.g., at Nant-y-ffrith 
[R.H.V.K.], Maesmor [W.J.K.], the Berwyns [T.R.] 
