96 HAMPSTEAD HILL. 



OCCASIONAL AND RARE VISITORS. 



Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus. Winter, 1857. 



Hobby, F. subbiUeo. Bishop's Wood, 1863; Hampstead Heath, August, 1864, 

 May, 1869, and May, 1872. 



Merlin, F. cesalon. Hampstead Heath, winter, 1857. 



Goshawk, Astur palumbarius. A young male captured at Hampstead on 

 September 3, 1872, was preserved by Burton, of Wardour Street. 



Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor. Occasionally in winter. Sometimes caught by 

 the bird-catchers when striking at their " call-birds." 



Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula. Seen at Frognal and Sandfield Lodge, during 

 May, 1862. 



Black Redstart, Ruticilla tithys. Caught at Hampstead by C. Davy, bird- 

 catcher, April 14, 1869, identified by E. Blyth and R. Mitford. In the 

 autumn of 1868 a pair seen in Culverhouse's brickfield; female caught and 

 deposited in the Zoological Gardens. 



Waxwing, Ampelis garrulus. In November, 1866, there was a remarkable immi- 

 gration of this species. Three were shot out of a flock on Hampstead Heath. 

 Seven were seen and one shot at Highgate in December, 1866, and others 

 were seen at Hampstead, in January, 1867. 



Rock Pipit, Anthus obscurus. Rarely found inland, except during the period of 

 its migration in spring and autumn. One, in the collection of Mr. R. Mitford, 

 was taken by a bird-catcher on Hampstead Heath in November, 1871. 



Richard's Pipit, Anthus richardi. The specimen of this bird, from which the 

 coloured figure in Gould's " Birds of Great Britain " was drawn, was caught in a 

 net at Highgate, October 4, 1866, and between that date and the end of Novem- 

 ber, 1866, four more were taken in the same neighbourhood. In October, 

 1869, three more (all immature) were caught at Hampstead by bird-catchers 

 in the employ of Mr. Davy, of Kentish Town. Two of these are preserved 

 in the collection of Mr. F. Bond. 



CiRL Bunting, Emberiza cirlus. Seen on Hampstead Heath in April, 1855, 

 April, i860, and June, 1872. It has several times been met with at Hendon 

 and Kingsbury. The call- note of the male resembles that of the Lesser 

 Whitethroat. 



Mealy Redpoll, Linota linaria. In the autumn of 1866 a few were met with on 

 the Heath. 



Lesser Redpoll, Z. rufesceus. Occasionally seen in autumn hanging about the 

 birch-trees. In October, 1887, several little flocks were observed. 



