408 A lexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



HYPOTRIORCHIS ^ESALON (Boie}. Merlin. 



Provinces II. III. V.-VIII. X.-XVIII. 



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. LingwoocC], on the 

 Longmynd Hills in Shropshire (Mr. Shaw], occasionally in Pembroke- 

 shire (Mr. Tracy], regularly in Derbyshire (Mr. O. Salviri], in North 

 Wales (Eyton), and from Yorkshire northwards is marked as nesting 

 regularly in every county. 



TINNUNCULUS ALAUDARIUS (G. R. Grey}. Kestrel. 



Provinces I.-XVIII. 



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.] 

 Subprovinces 28 ?, (30 ?), (31). 

 Lat. 55 or 57-58. " Scottish " type. Not in Ireland. 



Mr. Tottenham Lee, writing in Dr. Morris's 'Naturalist' for 1853" 

 (vol. iii. p. 45), states that a pair once took possession of a Raven's 

 nest in Roxburghshire, and that he had heard of another nest in the 

 same county. Mr. Robert Gray, of Glasgow, who knew Mr. Lee, tells 

 me that he was perfectly familiar with birds of prey, and was not likely 

 to make a mistake as to the species. 



Macgillivray appears to have met with the Gos-Hawk occasionally 

 among the Grampians ; and Montagu quotes Colonel Thornton as 

 having obtained a young Gos-Hawk from near the Spey, and as having 

 seen some eyries in the Forest of Glenmoor and Rothiemurcus. 

 Mr. W. Dunbar also writes that when he was a boy it " used to breed 

 regularly in the woods of Castle Grant, and in Abernethy and Dulnane 

 forests." 



