THE LARGER INLAND BIRDS. 



OSPREY. 



PEREGRINE 

 FALCON. 



A specimen of this bird is said to have been shot 

 on the Scarisbrick estate in April, 1880. 



We have an adult male in our collection, but I 

 have no record whence he came. 



HOBBY. This dainty little hawk is purely an accidental 



visitor. It evidently was a very accidental visit to 

 the bird which adorns one of our cases. 



MERLIN. Occasionally seen and occasionally shot, oftener by 

 the keepers than by anyone else. 



MARSH HARRIER. Byerly (" Fauna of jLiverpool") states that this bird 

 is frequently seen in the sandhills about Crosby and 

 Formby. (Mather.) 



HEN HARRIER. The older mossmen describe a big blue hawk which 

 used to breed fifty years ago on the new moss. 



KESTREL. One of the commonest of the hawk tribe to be 

 seen about here. I once kept a couple of kestrels 

 and tried to tame them. But methinks they had 

 already had a short period in the wild state, for 

 they shunned my friendly advances, and only became 

 at all tame when I had their dinners with me. 

 Their conduct then was positively fraternal. 



SPARROW HAWK. Another common hawk about here. Breeds near 

 Formby Hall and in the woods round I nee Blundell, 

 and would soon become plentiful but for the 

 1 incessant war waged against them by the keepers. 



