4 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



PEREGEINE FALCON. Falco peregrinus, Gmelin. 



Kesident; migrating to the east and south-east in 

 autumn. 



HOBBY. Falco subbuteo, Linnseus. 

 A summer migrant, but not common. 



MERLIN. Falco cesalon, Gmelin. 



Kesident in Scotland, Ireland, and on the moors of 

 England and Wales. A winter visitant to the south. 



KESTEEL. Falco tinnunculus, Linnaeus. 



Eesident ; migrating to the east and south-east in 

 autumn. 



SPAEEOWHAWK. Accipiter nisus (Linnseus). 

 Resident, and generally distributed. 



GOSHAWK. Astur palumbarius (Linnseus). 



Formerly resident in the north of England and 

 Scotland, and presumably in Ireland. Has been 

 known to breed in the Forest of Glenmoor and 

 Rothiemurcus (Colonel Thornton), and on the wooded 

 banks of the Dee (Selby); in Kirkcudbrightshire 

 (Lee) * ; in the woods of Castle Grant, Inverness, 

 and Abernethy and Dulnane forests (Dunbar)f . The 

 bird used to frequent Oakley and Piper Woods, 



* Lee in < The Naturalist/ 1853, p. 45 ; and E. Gray, < Birds of 

 the West of Scotland/ p. 37. 

 t The Ibis, 1865, p. 10. 



