2 CLARKE : THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



The late Mr. Henry Denny, in a Catalogue of the Animals 

 occurring near Leeds, published in 1840, stated that one was 

 shot at Stockeld Park near Wetherby, on the 29th of November, 

 [804. I have not been able to trace this specimen, but the 

 authority is so good that I see no reason for doubt. 



The York Courantfor January 1838 contained an account of 

 an eagle which was trapped during that month at Beningborough, 

 near that city, in which neighbourhood it committed numerous 

 depredations for a week before its capture. The expanse of wing 

 in this specimen was given as 7 feet 10 inches. Mr. Neville 

 Wood, noticing the occurrence in his Naturalist, presumed from 

 the dimensions given that the specimen was referable to this 

 species. 



Mr. A. Roberts informs me that one in the first year's plumage 

 was shot at Hunmanby on the 24th of July 1844, on the estate of 

 Admiral Mitford, who presented it to the Scarborough museum. 



One instance of its occurrence in the East Riding was 

 reported by Mr. Arthur Strickland to Mr. Thomas Allis of York, 

 and included by that gentleman in his Report on the Birds of 

 Yorkshire, read before the British Association in 1844. I am 

 greatly indebted to his son-in-law, Mr. W. Pumphrey, for the loan 

 of this valuable manuscript. 



Captain Edward H. Turton, of Upsall Castle, Thirsk, 

 informs me that a specimen in his museum was shot about 

 Christmas 185 1, on Court Moor, Kildale, near Stokesley, in the 

 North Riding, by his father's keeper. 



A beautiful young female, in the first year's plumage, was 

 shot in December 1861, at Skerne, near Driffield, in the East 

 Riding, when in the act of eating a hare, by a man called Kemp, 

 gamekeeper to Mr. A. Bannister. It was skinned and set up by 

 Mr. Roberts, of Scarborough, who says it weighed 8 lbs. 5 ozs. This 

 bird is now in the fine collection of the Norwich museum, to 

 which it was presented by Mr. Francis Hoare, formerly of Tranby 

 Park, near Hull, to whom, Mr. W. W. Boulton and Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., I am indebted for the particulars. 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1879. Series B 



