GOSHAWK. 5 
Leicestershire (Harley*), and has occasionally been 
found on Dartmoor (Dr. Moore). It is said to have 
nested in Yorkshire (Ransom)f. Old works on Fal- 
conry state that “the best Goshawks were procured 
in the north of Ireland, as in the province of Ulster, 
but more especially in the county of Tyrone”{. Mr. 
Thompson, however, states (Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds, 
i. p. 62) that the Goshawk “ cannot with certainty be 
included in the Irish fauna.” An adult female 
Goshawk shot in the Galtee Mountains, Tipperary, 
on the 17th January, 1870, as recorded by Sir Victor 
Brooke (‘ Land and Water, 5th March, 1870), proved 
to be the American Astur atricapillus (‘Land and 
Water, 8th October, 1870). A young male, however, 
of Astur palumbarius was seen in Ballymanas Wood, 
co. Wicklow (‘ Zoologist,’ 1870, p. 2283). Low was 
doubtless mistaken in observing, in his ‘ Fauna Orca- 
densis, that the Goshawk frequents Orkney; his 
reference to sea-cliffs points to the Peregrine. It is 
thought, however, to have nested in Shetland 9. 
KITE. Milvus ictinus, Savigny. 
Formerly common ; now resident m few localities. 
Used to nest in Tolvern Wood, Cornwall (Bullmore) ; 
* « A List of the Birds of Leicestershire,” by James Harley, pub- 
lished in the 3rd vol. of Macgillivray’s ‘ History of British Birds.’ 
+ The Zoologist, 1863, p. 8678. 
+ See Turbervile’s ‘ Book of Falconrie,’ 2nd ed. 1611, p. 60; 
‘The Gentleman’s Recreation,’ 6th ed. 1721, p. 72; and Campbell’s 
‘Treatise on Modern Falconry,’ 1780, p. 214. 
§ See Edmonstone in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 1844, p. 459. 
