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THE LESSER KESTRET: 
(Fatco CENCHRIS.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. List. 
Rejected by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm, 
who gives the history of the York bird. 
The account of the occurrence of the Lesser Kestrel, 
at Dover, appeared in the Zoologist for 1877. Mr. C. 
Gordon, of the Museum at Dover, states that Mr. E. P. 
Robinson had lately presented the Museum with a speci- 
men of this bird. It had been caught alive by a labourer, 
and kept alive for some time at a farm near Dover; it 
was an adult male, and one leg having been injured led 
to its capture. 
THE SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. 
( ELANOIDES FORFICATUS.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. List. 
Admitted by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
This bird was rejected by Mr. Dresser from his Birds of 
Europe: being an insectivorous bird it might be thought 
strange that it should visit this country; this might be 
it we accepted the idea that birds visit us from chozrce, 
and not the compulsion of winds and storms. Moreover 
it is known to feed on frogs and snakes, it is also said to 
be a local bird, but Brewer says, it is ‘a great wanderer.” 
Professor Newton says, there is zo room for doubt of 
the Yorkshire occurrence. 
Mr. Seebohm says, “its claim to rank as a British 
bird rests upon the undoubted capture of two specimens.” 
