12 CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Montagu, could procure a Tercel (a male) that would kill ducks, 

 although he had tried many from other places. 



In the year 1844 Mr. Allis stated that it still continued to 

 breed near Pickering, although becoming much more rare than 

 formerly ; also that it had bred in that year at Kilnsey Crag and 

 Arncliffe, both in Wharfedale. 



It is an unmistakable pleasure to be able still to claim this 

 noble bird as a resident. A pair or two still breed almost annually in 

 the stupendous cliffs of our coast at Flamborough and Speeton, 

 where its favourite prey the Rock Pigeon is numerous, and 

 occasionally a pair or two also breed inland. 



Mr. Cordeaux in the Zoologist (1868, p. 1026), stated that 

 there were two eyries at Flamborough in 1867, one of which was 

 robbed by the climbers. The other pair were more fortunate, 

 and escaped unmolested, the young birds getting off. 



On the 3rd of June 1876, the writer was at Buckton and 

 Bempton, between Flamborough Head and Filey, and saw in the 

 possession of the climbers three young in whitish down, which had 

 been taken on the 30th of May. They had come across them quite 

 by accident in the highest portion of the cliff; there was not the 

 slightest sign of a nest, the young being simply on a ledge about 

 four feet wide. On visiting the cliffs I saw both the old birds, 

 the female leaving the ledge from which the young were taken and 

 flying round uttering a very plaintive note. The climbers wished 

 me to purchase these young birds, but this I declined to do, 

 hoping, as I had heard them complain about the trouble of feeding 

 them, and also some mention of putting them again on the eyry, 

 that they might yet be restored to the old birds ; unfortunately, 

 however, they eventually found their way to Barnsley (Zoologist, 

 1876, p. 5000). A pair returned to the same locality in the 

 spring of this year (1879), when I regret to say one of them was 

 ruthlessly shot and the eyry consequently deserted. 



Mr. Geo. Brook, ter., of Huddersfield, informs me that in 

 1 87 1 a nest with four eggs was taken from the Fells on the 

 borders of Westmoreland, and the old male shot. The eggs and 

 bird are now in his collection. I refrain from mentioning the 



■> Trans. Y.N.U., 1879. Series B 



