in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 11 
another nest in the same county. Mr. Robert Gray, of Glasgow, 
who knew Mr. Lee, tells me that he was perfectly familiar with 
birds of prey, and was not likely to make a mistake as to the 
species. 
Macgillivray appears to have met with the Gos-Hawk occa- 
sionally among the Grampians; and Montagu quotes Colonel 
Thornton as having obtained a young Gos-Hawk from near the 
Spey, and as having seen some eyries in the Forest of Glenmoor 
and Rothiemureus. Mr. W. Dunbar also writes that when he 
was a boy it “used to breed regularly in the woods of Castle 
Grant, and in Abernethy and Dulnane forests.” 
In the ‘ Zoologist? for 1863 (p. 8678) mention is made of a 
nest found in Yorkshire, supposed to have been that of a Gos- 
Hawk*. 
AccipPiTer Nisus (Pall.). Sparrow-Hawk. 
Provinces I.—X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1-37, 38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “British” type, or general. 
Throughout Great Britain, extending to the Outer Hebrides 
and North Scottish isles. 
Mitvus recauis (Briss.). Kite. 
Provinces I.—VIII. X. XI. XIII. XV.—XVII. 
Subprovinces 1-9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17-20, 22-26, 29-32, 34, 35. 
Lat. 50°-59°. “ British” type, or general. Not now in Ireland. 
The Kite has become so scarce, that it is impossible to distin- 
guish between the districts where it is quite extinct, and those 
where a few pairs may still continue to breed. “In Perthshire 
the Kite is not only destroyed for the sake of the game, but for 
its feathers, which are used in making salmon-flies ; so that, from 
being, within my recollection, quite a common bird, it is now 
nearly extinct.” (Colonel Drummond-Hay.) 
* It seems reasonable to suppose that, in the days when forests of Pinus 
sylvestris flourished naturally in Scotland, the Gos-Hawk inhabited the 
districts so occupied ; and Colonel Thornton’s evidence as to the fact of its 
breeding there must be considered satisfactory. It is well known among 
ornithologists that m some places this bird has bequeathed its common 
name to Falco peregrinus, and hence much confusion has arisen.—Ep. 
