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the Jackdaw's Well) ; five young were taken at the former 

 place about 1860, and a single bird was seen on Stape Moor 

 in May 1893. In Wensleydale it is known at Raven's Scar, 

 Walden Head, Cover Head, Ellerton, and Askrigg, and, in 

 the adjoining valley of the Swale, an old inhabitant, one 

 Timothy Hutton, born in 1779, and who died in 1863, 

 remembered Ravens breeding in Hudswell Scar ; while up 

 to 1880 there were breeding places in the upper dale at Swinner- 

 gill, Oxnop Scar, and Raven's Crag, which latter place is said 

 to have been occupied in 1884 ; two were seen at Keld in 1881, 

 and a pair in Arkengarthdale in 1882. The only parts of the 

 North Riding where it still maintains a precarious footing 

 are in the extreme north-west, in Upper Teesdale, and other 

 two localities on the Westmorland border ; at the first named 

 place a pair nested on Cronkley Scar until quite recently ; eggs 

 were taken in 1899 and four birds were seen in the autumn of 

 1902. In the year 1880 eleven Ravens were killed on Bowes 

 Moor, where I saw the remains of seven of them hanging on 

 the walls of a keeper's cottage, the crime alleged against them 

 being the raiding of lambs. On the borders of Westmorland 

 in 1 88 1 a remarkable combat took place between a Peregrine 

 and a Raven, in which the black bird was victorious, the 

 Falcon being afterwards picked up dead on a moor. An 

 odd pair of birds still build annually on the rocky sides of 

 the fells in this locality, though, as they are generally robbed 

 of their eggs, they change their dwelling places from year 

 to year. In 1899 a clutch of four eggs was taken and the 

 female found dead, egg-bound ; the male got another mate, 

 built a nest and reared a brood at the same place, while in 

 1903 two pairs attempted to nest, but were driven away by 

 the Peregrine Falcons, and in 1904 one pair nested and five 

 eggs were produced. 



In the East Riding a pair bred annually in Scampston 

 deer-park in a Scotch fir ; the female was accidentally killed 

 by the keeper, and the male left the place ; this was sixty 

 to seventy years ago as related by G. Petch of Lowthorpe, 

 who used to come over each year to help take the young 

 birds ; Petch died in 1886. Ravens nested on Beverley 



