10 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 
HyporriorcHis &sALON (Bote). Merlin. 
Provinces IT. III. V.—VIII. X.—X VIII. 
Subprovinces 5, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “ Scottish ” or Northern type. 
The Rev. M. A. Mathews informs me that the Merlin has 
been seen on Exmoor in June. 
In the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1862 (p. 8159), Mr. W. Farren gives 
an account of his finding the nest of the Merlin in low trees in 
the New Forest ; and Mr. H. Rogers has obtained birds and eggs 
from the same locality. 
From Essex Dr. C. R. Bree writes that the Merlin breeds in 
the marshes of the Rochford hundred. Mr. Laver, his informant, 
has brought up the young birds from the nest. 
Breeds occasionally in Hereford (Mr. R. M. Lingwood), on 
the Longmynd Hills in Shropshire (Mr. Shaw), occasionally in 
Pembrokeshire (Mr. Tracy), regularly in Derbyshire (Mr. O. 
Salvin), in North Wales (Hyton), and from Yorkshire north- 
wards is marked as nesting regularly in every county. 
TINNUNCULUS ALAUDARIUS (G. R. Gray). Kestrel. 
Provinces I.—X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “British” type, or general. 
The commonest and best known of all our birds of prey. 
Breeds throughout Great Britain, and is marked as nesting 
regularly in every county. Doubtless breeds in South-east 
Wales (subprovince 16), the only district from which I have no 
return. 
ASTUR PALUMBARIUS (Bechst.). Gos-Hawk. 
Provinces XIV.? [XV.] 
Subprovinees 28 ?, (30%), (31). 
Lat. 55° or 57°-58°. “Scottish” type. Not in Ireland. 
Mr. Tottenham Lee, writing in Dr. Morris’s ‘ Naturalist’ for 
1858 (vol. ili. p. 45), states that a pair once took possession of 
a Raven’s nest in Roxburghshire, and that he had heard of 
