204 THE BIRDS OF CORNWALL. 



districts of central and northern Europe, a limited number 

 passing westward into Great Britain in Ma}' or June and returning 

 in November ; has probably nested once in Cornwall. 



Greenland Falcon ; an extremely rare accidental visitor, 

 one specimen having been taken at the Lizard in 1830, a second 

 on the Lynlier river in 1 834, and a third on Goonhilly downs; 

 probably never nests south of the Arctic circle. 



Iceland Falcon ; an extremely rare accidental visitor, a 

 single specimen having been secured at Scilly, in 1895; breeds 

 m Iceland but is a rarer visitor to the British Isles than the 

 Greenland Falcon. 



Peregrine ; resident ; breeds regularly at intervals along 

 the south coast ; nested last year near Crackington Haven ; bred 

 formerly at Scilly but now only a visitor there ; probably nested 

 once near Zennor ; breeds along the entire west coast of Europe. 



Hobby ; a fairly common summer casual occurring through- 

 out the county, but more frequent in the east than in the west ; 

 probably not been seen at Scilly ; no certain record of its having 

 nested in Cornwall ; breeds throughout Europe as far north as 

 the Arctic circle and in winter passes southwards towards the 

 Cape. 



Merlin ; a winter visitor, at no time common and occasionally 

 not recorded for the year ; an autumn casual at Scilly ; seen near 

 Launceston, January, 1902; breeds regularly in Britain in suit- 

 able localities from Derbyshire northward. 



Red Footed Falcon ; an exceedingly rare accidental visitor, 

 represented by one specimen from Budock in February, 1851,. 

 and another from Helston in autumn, 1867; a common bird 

 throughout eastern Europe, but irregular in its occurrence in the 

 west. 



Kestrel ; resident ; the commonest of our hawks, breeding 

 annually along our rocky coast and at Scilly ; breeds throughout 

 Europe except in the far north; very abundant in Spain. 



Lesser Kestrel ; an extremely rare accidental visitor, not 

 only to Cornwall but the British Isles generally ; has occurred 

 once at Scilly, in March, 1891, and probably in the west in 1876 ; 

 breeds abundantly in the south of Spain and is a summer 

 straggler as far as Normandy ; great flocks pass northward over 

 the Mediterranean in February and return early in October. 



