580 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



*Falco peregrinus (J. F. Gmel.) Peregrine Falcon. 



Resident in small numbers. Breeds on the sea-cliffs all round the 

 coast, and less numerously on the higher mountains. 



Falco subbuteo (Linn.) Hobby. 



Very rare summer visitor. Has occurred eight times in Ireland. 

 (Zoologist, 1877, p. 472 ; 1883, p. 122 ; and 1890, p. 357.)! 



Falco vespertinus (Linn.) Red-footed Falcon. 



Once obtained in Wicklow, in the summer of 1832. (Thompson] 

 This specimen is in the Museum, having formerly belonged to 

 the late Mr. T. W. Warren's collection. 



*Falco sesalon (Gmel.) Merlin. 



Frequent, especially in the mountainous districts, where it breeds. 

 Descends, in autumn, to the level country and bogs. 



*Falco timmnculus (Linn.) Kestrel. 



General, and with the Sparrow Hawk, the most common species of 

 Hawk. Most numerous in autumn. 



Falco cenchris (Naum.) Lesser Kestrel. 



Has once occurred. An adult male, shot at Shankill, co. Dublin, 

 1 7th February, 1891, by Mr. Michael Carr, while the bird was 

 feeding on earthworms, following a plough. It had been seen 

 in that neighbourhood all the winter, from early in November 

 (Zoologist, 1891, p. 152). 

 Astur palumbarius (Linn.) Goshawk. 



One was obtained in Longford in the autumn of 1846. (Watters.} 

 One seen in Ballymanus Wood, in Wicklow, in the spring of 



1870. (Zoologist, 1870, p. 2283.) One, killed at Kilruddery, 

 Wicklow, in 1844, is quoted by Sir R. Payne- Gall wey, from a 

 note left by the late Dr. J. R. Kinahan. (Fowler in Ireland, 

 p. 312.) 



Astur atricapillus (Wils.) American Goshawk. 



Native of America. One killed at Ballinacourte, county Tipperary, 

 in Feb., 1870, was presented to the Museum by Mr. G. K. S. 

 Massy Dawson. (Ibis, 1870, p. 538.) Another was shot near 

 Parsonstown about same date. (A. B. Brooke, in Zoologist, 



1871, p. 2524). 



*Accipiter nisus (Linn.) Sparrow-Hawk. 

 Resident and common. 



Milvus ictinus (Savigny). Kite. 



Extremely rare. Has been observed five or six times. Only one 

 Irish s specimen is known. In his book, the ' ' Fowler in Ireland, ' ' 

 Sir R. Payne-Gallwey mentions having shot a yonng male Kite 

 en the Cashen River in Kerry, in the winter of 1 880-81. 



t A tew additional occurrences of the Hobby in Ireland might now be 

 mentioned. It is sometimes obtained at the light-houses. 



