4 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
PEREGRINE FALCON. Falco peregrinus, Gmelin. 
Resident; migrating to the east and south-east in 
autumn. 
HOBBY. falco subbuteo, Linneus. 
A summer migrant, but not common. 
MERLIN. faico wsalon, Gmelin. 
Resident in Scotland, Ireland, and on the moors of 
England and Wales. <A winter visitant to the south. 
KESTREL. Falco tinnunculus, Linneus. 
Resident; migrating to the east and south-east in 
autumn. 
SPARROWHAWK. Accipiter nisus (Linneus). 
Resident, and generally distributed. 
GOSHAWK. Astur palumbarius (Linneeus). 
Formerly resident in the north of England and 
Scotland, and presumably in Ireland. Has been 
known to breed in the Forest of Glenmoor and 
Rothiemurcus (Colonel Thornton), and on the wooded 
banks of the Dee (Selby); in Kirkcudbrightshire 
(Lee)*; in the woods of Castle Grant, Inverness, 
and Abernethy and Dulnane forests (Dunbar)?. The 
bird used to frequent Oakley and Piper Woods, 
* Lee in ‘ The Naturalist,’ 1853, p. 45; and R. Gray, ‘ Birds of 
the West of Scotland,’ p. 37. 
+ The Ibis, 1865, p. 10. 
