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NOTES QF CHANGES AMONG ANIMALS IN FYLING- 
DALES, NORTH-EAST YORKS., WITHIN THE 
LAST FIFTY YEARS. 
J. W. BARRY. 
Fylingdales. 
(Continued from page 309). 
BIRDS. 
The Peregrine I have missed the last few years. I used to 
see it regularly, perhaps once a week, and, almost invariably, 
if the hour was advanced, making its way in the direction of 
the Peak, so there, I presume, it had its habitat among the high 
cliffs. It caused some little destruction among the grouse, and 
one of my workmen has seen it strike the wild duck close at 
hand to him. I believe that Sir C. Strickland’s late keeper 
killed one or two Peregrines, but I observed that its disappear- 
ance was almost coincident with the conversion of the Peak 
Hall into the watering place of ‘ Ravenscar.’ 
The Buzzard I see, and have seen, at all seasons of the 
year, but not for long at atime. The last seen by me was just 
a month ago, and on two successive days. On the second 
occasion it flew in front of the house and almost within gun- 
shot. 
The Raven was common a short time ago, but I have not 
seen it for the last four or five years. Increased use of the 
pole-trap, I think.* 
The Jay I never saw or heard here until about fifteen years 
ago when some forty or fifty Jays suddenly appeared together. 
For many years afterwards they quite took possession of the 
woods, and became quite a nuisance from their discordant cries 
alone. The last year or so only one or two odd ones have been 
heard, and that not continuously. This year none at all. I 
cannot attribute the decline to their being shot at. 
The nearest woods which they haunted before they appeared 
here were those of Harwood Dale about six or seven miles off in 
a straight line, but across the moor. 
Woodpeckers have greatly increased in numbers of late 
years and alsoin boldness. Formerly, Woodpeckers used never 
* The use of the Pole trap is now illegal, so that perhaps Ravens may 
fare rather better in the district for the future. —ED- 
Naturalist, 
