138 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
mature and immature plumage, which have been shot 
or trapped within recent years; and on March 11th, 
1899, we were fortunate in having a good view of 
a Peregrine Falcon as it sailed to and fro with out- 
stretched motionless wings, above the moors at the 
head of Crowden Brook. 
HOBBY. 
FALco SsuBBUTEO, Linnzus. 
We know of no specific instance of the Hobby breed- 
ing in Cheshire within recent years, although ‘ Red- 
shank,’ writing in 1875, states that it has occasionally 
nested in the county 1—indeed, at the present time the 
bird only occurs rarely, even on migration. 
Speaking of Wirral, Brockholes says that the Hobby 
‘is occasionally obtained in spring and autumn in 
Burton and elsewhere.? Mr. W. Cox informed Dr. 
Dobie that he had preserved a specimen which was 
shot at Oulton Park ;* and Dr. J. D. Sainter records the 
occurrence of another ‘two or three miles south of 
Macclesfield’ Mr. Wright Johnson of Prestwich has 
a female Hobby in his collection, which was obtained 
in Cheshire some years ago; and Mr. W. Beaumont tells 
us that in 1879 he stuffed one that had been captured 
between Staleybridge and Mottram-in-Longdendale. 
Mr. A. Newman tells us that he shot a Hobby on 
Frodsham Marsh in October 1892. 
1 Manchester City News, July 24, 1875. 
2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 4. 
3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 316. 
4 Nature, vol, ix. p. 132. 1873. 
