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as breeding occasionally in Yorkshire. He has since stated, 

 in reply to inquiries, that the only locality known to him was 

 Rossington Wood, near Doncaster, and that his informant was 

 the late Hugh Reid. 



One instance of its having nested at Bishop Wood, near 

 Selby, in the summer of 1869 (year not quite certain), was 

 reported by the late keeper, Wm. Harland, who stated that 

 its eggs were taken from a Crow's nest, and were in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. A. R. Kell of Barnsley. In the East Riding the 

 nest has been reported at Everingham Park, near Market 

 Weighton, in 1875. 



The following are the instances of its occurrence which 

 have come under my notice : 



In Neville Wood's "Naturalist" (1837, P- 3 8 4)> p - 

 Hawkridge of Scarborough remarked : This bird is very 

 scarce in our neighbourhood. A specimen was once killed 

 by a boy with a stick at Knapton, near Scarborough, and 

 presented to the Scarborough museum by Mr. Tindall. When 

 we consider the diminutive size of this Falcon, we may venture 

 to pronounce it second to none of its family in point of courage. 

 At the time the individual above mentioned was taken it had 

 just seized a Rook. 



The late Wm. Talbot in his " Birds of Wakefield " stated 

 that he saw one in the flesh which had been taken at Bilham, 

 near Doncaster, in February 1845. 



Near Bridlington, a male was killed in 1860 by T. Ellotson, 

 gamekeeper to Sir Henry Boynton, and is preserved in the 

 Burton Agnes collection. 



Mr. W. H. Raw of Lealholm, near Whitby, has a fine 

 specimen which he obtained in Fryup, in the year 1866. 



The late J. Cordeaux in his " Birds of the Humber District " 

 (1872), said that the late W. W. Boulton of Beverley informed 

 him that it is not infrequently seen near there, and that he 

 has had several during the last few years shot near the river 

 Hull and at Spurn Point; though Mr. F. Boyes throws a 

 doubt on this statement. 



Mr. F. G. S. Rawson of Halifax reported one at Ovenden 

 in 1873. 



