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enough to meet with it. A record is given by Thomas Allis 

 (ante), and it may be as well to remark that Hugh Reid, 

 who is quoted, was admittedly a first-rate and thoroughly 

 reliable ornithologist. The Edlington specimen, as I am 

 informed by Mr. Newstead, is now in the Chester Museum. 

 In a MS. list supplied in 1880, the late J. Tennant wrote of 

 this species : " One was shot early in the present century 

 from the nest at Murton, near Hawnby, by the late Charles 

 Harrison, who obtained both birds. A pair was obtained 

 in Redhouse Wood by A. Christie, in spring, twenty to thirty 

 years ago. A pair passed over Wilstrop in 1874, and was 

 noticed by the late J. Harrison, his attention being directed 

 to the long forked tails of the birds, which were being mobbed 

 by a large party of Rooks." 



The veteran naturalist, the late Charles Waterton of 

 Walton, in Loudon's " Mag. Nat. Hist." (1835), remarked that 

 " of all the large wild birds which formerly were so common 

 in this part of Yorkshire, the Heron alone can now be seen. 

 The Kite, the Buzzard, and the Raven have been exterminated 



long ago by our merciless gamekeepers Kites were 



frequent here in the days of my father ; but I, myself, have 

 never seen one near the place." 



Dr. Farrar of Barnsley, in a MS. list of the birds of that 

 district, dated 1844, mentioned specimens at Horsecar Wood 

 in 1833, and at Lunn Wood in 1844. The woods adjoin 

 each other and are two miles from Barnsley on its eastern 

 quarter. These records are referred to in Allis's Report, 

 as also are occurrences at Halifax, Huddersfield, and Penistone. 



In a list of birds prepared for this work by Wm. Lister 

 of Glaisdale, in Cleveland, for which I am indebted to Mr. 

 Thomas Stephenson of Whitby, that gentleman stated that 

 he killed a Kite in Glaisdale in the year 1843 or 1844, and 

 that one was also trapped by W. Bennison of Egton Bridge, 

 and stuffed by the late Mr. Ruddock. 



Admiral C. C. Oxley of Ripon informs me that a specimen 

 in his collection was killed in Redcar in 1837. 



A female occurred near Market Weighton on 5th July 1850, 

 as recorded in the Zoologist (1850, p. 2952), by J. C. Garth. 



