10 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



Hypotriorchis jEsalon [Boie). Merlin. 



Provinces II. III. V.-VIII. X.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 5, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22-38. 

 Lat. 50°-61°. " Scottish " or Northern type. 



The Rev. M. A. Mathews informs me that the Merlin has 

 been seen on Exmoor in June. 



In the ^Zoologist' for 1862 (p. 8159), Mr. W. Farren gives 

 an account of his finding the nest of the MerUn in low trees in 

 the New Forest ; and Mr. H. Rogers has obtained birds and eggs 

 from the same locality. 



From Essex Dr. C. R. Bree writes that the Merlin breeds in 

 the marshes of the Rochford hundred. Mr. Laver, his informant, 

 has brought up the young birds from the nest. 



Breeds occasionally in Hereford {Mr. R. M. Lingwood), on 

 the Longmynd Hills in Shropshire {Mr. Shaw), occasionally in 

 Pembrokeshire {Mr. Tracy), regularly in Derbyshire {Mr. 0. 

 Salvin), in North Wales {Eyton), and from Yorkshire north- 

 wards is marked as nesting regularly in every county. 



TiNNUNCULUs ALAUDARius {G. R. Gray). Kestrel. 



Provinces I.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 1-38. 



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



The commonest and best known of all our birds of prey. 

 Breeds throughout Great Britain, and is marked as nesting 

 regularly in every county. Doubtless breeds in South-east 

 Wales (subprovince 16), the only district from which I have no 

 return. 



AsTUR PALUMBARius {Bechst.). Gos-Hawk. 



Provinces XIV. ? [XV.] 



Subprovinces 28 ?, (30?), (31). 



Lat. 55° or 57°-58°. " Scottish" type. Not in Ireland. 



Mr. Tottenham Lee, writing in Dr. Morris's ' Naturalist ' for 

 1853 (vol. iii. p. 45), states that a pair once took possession of 

 a Raven's nest in Roxburghshire, and that he had heard of 



