4 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



on several occasions during the last ten years been 

 observed in the North Lincolnshire marshes. One 

 was trapped near Epworth on the 19th of March, 

 1868; another, a male of the second year, shot at 

 Spurn Point on the 9th of October, 1869. Nests at 

 Flamborough : there were two eyries of the Peregrine 

 on the Speeton Cliffs, on the north side of that head- 

 land, in the summer of 1867. 



6. FALCO SUBBTJTEO, Linnaeus. Hobby. 



A summer visitant, occurring both in the adult and 

 immature plumage. Breeds annually in the great 

 woodlands near Louth, North Lincolnshire; also, 

 as Mr. Adrian of Lincoln informs me, in woods be- 

 tween Langworth and Wragby. Mr. Boulton writes 

 that it is not unfrequently seen near Beverley, and 

 that he has had several during the last few years 

 shot near the river Hull, and at Spurn Point. It 

 is mentioned in Mr. Alington's list* of birds found 

 near Croxby Lake on the North Wolds. I have 

 seen many Lincolnshire-killed specimens of the 

 Hobby. 



7. FALCO RUFIPES, Beseke. Red-footed Falcon. 



The notice of this rare species is restricted to a 

 single specimen, a mature female, shot during the 



* A paper on the " Ornithology of Lincolnshire," by the Rev. 

 R. P. Alington, published in the 'Naturalist ' for January 1852. 



