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FWALLOW-TAILED NAUCLERUS. 



Nauderus furcatus VIGORS. 

 PLATE XV. 



Falco furcatus Linn. Elanus furcatus, Savigny Nau 



clems furcatus, Vigors. Swallow-tailed Hawk, Wilson. 

 Swallow-tailed Elanus, Selby. 



WE can only notice, what has been repeatedly 

 done before, the capture of the two specimens 

 which have given this bird a partial claim to a 

 place in our Fauna. The one was killed near 

 Ballachulish in Argyllshire; the other, in 1805, 

 was taken alive in Yorkshire ; but since this, 

 notwithstanding the strict attention which has 

 been given to our native ornithology, no other 

 species has been discovered. 



The Argyllshire bird is recorded by the late 

 Dr Walker, and the Yorkshire specimen was taken 

 by Mr Fothergill, of Carr-End, near Arkrigg. A 

 notice of this fact was communicated to the Lin- 

 nsen Society, and printed in their Transactions. 

 Mr Fothergill states, that, " apparently to avoid 

 the violence of a tremendous thunder-storm, and 

 the clamorous persecution of a flock of rooks 



