52 The Birds of Pembrokeshire. 
and passed into the collection of Mr. Ackland, of Boulston. 
In February, 1854, Mr. Mathias himself saw a Kite on two 
occasions, and believes it to be the same bird that was shot 
shortly after in Carmarthenshire. There is a Kite in Lord 
Cawdor’s collection at Stackpole. As recently as the summer 
of 1893 Mr. Howard Saunders had a fine view of a Kite at 
Dinas. This bird may have belonged to a little colony of Kites 
that still exists in Central Wales. Mr. C. Jefferys, of Tenby, 
informs us that he has seen a Kite passing over at Pendine, and 
that at the present time Kites still nest in Carmarthenshire, at a 
locality that had better not be disclosed, where there was a nest 
in the summer of 1893. 
HONEY-BUZZARD, Pernis apivorus.—A rare occasional visitor, 
both in spring and autumn. This is a tree-frequenting species, 
particularly fond of the beech, not likely to be often met with in 
Pembrokeshire, where we have only one record of its occurrence. 
We have been informed by Sir Hugh Owen that he saw a 
Honey-Buzzard at Creselly, in the year 1851. 
GREENLAND FALCON, Hierofalco candicans.—A rare accidental 
visitor from the far north. A fine specimen of this beautiful 
Falcon shot many years ago on Lord Cawdor’s estate may still be 
seen in the Gallery of British Birds, at the South Kensington 
Natural History Museum. In the Zoologist, for 1850, Mr. 
James Tracy, of Pembroke, gives the following particulars of its 
capture: ‘Thespecimen from which Mr. Yarrell made the drawing 
in his excellent work on British Birds was killed on a warren on 
the estate of the Earl of Cawdor, was set up by me, and after- 
wards given by the Earl to the Zoological Society. It had been 
observed by my father, his lordship’s keeper, for eight or ten 
days, and had, almost on each day, killed and partly devoured a 
cock Pheasant. It was very shy, always perched on the highest 
rocky eminences, and, therefore, difficult to get at; but was 
accidentally come on and shot in the act of rising from a cock 
Pheasant it had recently killed.” 
