in Great Britain during the Nesting -season. 11 



another nest in the same county. Mr, Robert Gray, of Glasgow, 

 who knew Mr. Lee, tells me that he was perfectly familiar with 

 birds of prey, and was not likely to make a mistake as to the 

 species. 



Macgillivray appears to have met with the Gos-Hawk occa- 

 sionally among the Grampians; and Montagu quotes Colonel 

 Thornton as having obtained a young Gos-Hawk from near the 

 Spey, and as having seen some eyries in the Forest of Glenmoor 

 and Eothiemurcus. Mr. W. Dunbar also writes that when he 

 was a boy it " used to breed regularly in the woods of Castle 

 Grant, and in Abernethy and Dulnane forests.^' 



In the ' Zoologist ' for 1863 (p. 8678) mention is made of a 

 nest found in Yorkshire, supposed to have been that of a Gos- 

 Hawk*. 



AcciPiTER Nisus [Pall.). Sparrow-Hawk. 

 Provinces I.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 1-37, 38. 

 Lat. 50°-61°. "British" type, or general. 



Throughout Great Britain, extending to the Outer Hebrides 

 and North Scottish isles. 



MiLvus REGALis {Bviss.). Kite. 



Provinces I.-VIII. X. XI. XIII. XV.-XVIT. 



Subprovinces 1-9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17-20, 32-26, 29-32, 34, 35. 



Lat. 50°— 59°. "British" type, or general. Not now in Ireland. 



The Kite has become so scarce, that it is impossible to distin- 

 guish between the districts where it is quite extinct, and those 

 where a few pairs may still continue to breed. " In Perthshire 

 the Kite is not only destroyed for the sake of the game, but for 

 its feathers, which are used in making salmon-flies ; so that, from 

 being, within my recollection, quite a common bird, it is now 

 nearly extinct.'^ {Colonel Drummond-Hay.) 



* It seems reasonable to suppose that, in the days when forests of Pinus 

 sylvestris flourished naturally in Scotland, the Gos-Hawk inhabited the 

 districts so occupied ; and Colonel Thornton's evidence as to the fact of its 

 breeding there must be considered satisfactory. It is well known among 

 ornithologists that in some places this bird has bequeathed its common 

 name to Falco peregrinus, and hence much confusion has arisen. — Ed. 



