AYES. :U 



Rap tores. 



1. Falco peregrinus. Peregrine Falcon. Very rare. 



A single specimen was caught by a boy, after 

 having just knocked down a partridge, in the 

 year 1838. 



2. Falco subbuteo. Hobby. Bare. It used formerly 



to breed on Dungeon, and also in the Middle- 

 marsh Woods. 



3. F. jEsalon. Merlin. Formerly common, but none 



have been seen for a great many years. 



4. F. tinnunculus. Kestrel. Common. It is curious 



to observe how, as the other Hawks have de- 

 creased in numbers, this one has increased. 



5. F. nisus. Sparrow Hawk. Common, and formerly 



more abundant than the Kestrel. 



6. F. milvus. Kite. Formerly common, but none 



have been seen for thirty years. It used to 

 breed in the Middlemarsh Woods ; and the 

 children of Sam Skeats, the keeper, took some 

 young ones, which they used to teaze with red 

 bits of cloth. 



1. Strix aluco. Tawny Owl. Very rare, if not ex- 



tinct now ; but formerly common. About 

 three or four years ago I saw one on a branch 

 of a fir tree in the Withybed, and mobbed by a 

 crowd of small birds of various kinds. 



2. S. flammea. Barn Owl. Common. 



