BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. O 



first week in November 186-1, by a sailor, from his 

 ship at the mouth of the Humber. This bird came 

 into the collection of Mr. Boulton, who has recorded 

 the circumstance of its capture in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for 1865, p. 9415. Mr. T. Boynton, of Ulrome Grange, 

 has recently informed me of a second capture of this 

 little Falcon namely, a mature male^ a very beau- 

 tiful specimen, shot by R. Morris, at Bempton, June 

 18th, 1869, and now in the possession of Mr. T. 

 Machin, of Bridlington. 



8. FALCO ^ESALON, Grnelin. Merlin. 



Provincial. Little Hawk. 



A winter visitant ; specimens of this little Falcon, 

 both in the mature and immature plumage, are occa- 

 sionally met with during the autumn and winter ; but 

 it must be considered rare. Usually one or two are 

 seen each year during the former season in the marshes 

 bordering the Humber; and it was not uncommon 

 with us in the autumn of 1868. Mr. Boulton has 

 also obtained them shot both near the river Hull and 

 at Spurn. They have frequently occurred near 

 Epworth in the Trent country ; also near the famous 

 Ashby decoy in the same district, where I have seen 

 a pair of adult birds, the male in the beautiful mature 

 plumage. 



Two adult males were taken at Epworth in the 

 winter of 1868-69 (Zoologist, s. s. 1559). 



About ten or eleven years since, Mr. Adrian 



