88 RARE VISITANTS. 



One, Galtee Mountains, Feb. 1870 : Sir Victor Brooke, The 



Ibis, 1870, p. 538. 

 One near Parsons Town, King's County, shortly afterwards : 



A. B. Brooke, Zoologist, 1871, p. 2524. 



BLACK KITE. Milvus migrans (Boddaert *). 



Hob. Europe, excepting Norway, Sweden, and Finland ; 

 Siberia ; Palestine ; Sinai ; Africa ; Madagascar. 



One, Alnwick, Northumberland, llth May, 1866 : Hancock, 

 The Ibis, 1867, p. 253; Gurney, Zoologist, 1869, p. 1598. 



Obs. Sir Robert Sibbald, in his ' Scotia Illustrata,' 

 1684, speaks of " a black Gled " as formerly inhabiting 

 Scotland. In Don's 'Fauna of Forfarshire' (1813) 

 also allusion is made (p. 39) to " Falco ater (Black 

 Eagle)," found " on heaths and low hills." 



SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. Nauclerus furcatus (Lin- 



nseus). 

 Hab. Southern United States, Central and South America. 



One, Ballachulish, Argyleshire, 1772 : Dr. Walker, Adver- 

 saria, 1772, p. 87, and 1774, p. 153 ; Fleming, Hist. Brit. 

 An. p. 52 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 85. 



One, Shaw Gill, near Hawes, Wensleydale, 6th Sept. 1805 : 

 Dr. Sims, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 583 ; Yarrell, /. c. 



One, Bishop of Winchester's Park, Farnham, Surrey, summer 

 1833 : Holme, Zoologist, 1856, p. 5042. 



One, Eskdale, Cumberland, April 1853 : B/obson, Zoologist, 

 1854, pp. 4166, 4406. 



* Falco migrans, Boddaert, Table PI. Enl. p. 28 (1783). Falco 

 ater, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 262 (1788). 



