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The following are the instances of its occurrence which have 

 come under my notice : — 



In Neville Wood's Naturalist (1837, p. 384) Mr. P. Hawk- 

 ridge of Scarborough remarks : — This bird is very scarce in our 

 neighbourhood. A specimen was once killed by a boy with a stick 

 at Knapton, near Scarborough, and presented to the museum of 

 that town by Mr. R. Tindall. When we consider the diminutive 

 size of this Falcon, we may venture to pronounce it second to 

 none of its family in point of courage. At the time the individual 

 above mentioned was taken it had just seized a rook. 



Mr. Wm. Talbot in his ' Birds of Wakefield' states that he 

 saw one in the flesh which had been shot at Bilham near Doncaster, 

 in February 1845. 



Mr. W. H. Raw of Lealholme near Yarm has a fine specimen 

 which he shot in Fryup, in the year 1866. 



Mr. Cordeaux in his 'Birds of the Humber District' (1872) 

 says that Mr. W. W. Boulton of Beverley informed him that it 

 is not unfrequently seen near there, and that he has had several 

 during the last few years shot near the river Hull and at Spurn 

 Point. 



Mr. F. G. S. Rawson of Halifax informs me that one was 

 shot at Ovenden in 1873. 



In 1874 Mr. R. Richardson of Beverley (to whom I am 

 indebted for the information) had two females sent to him for 

 preservation. One of these was shot at Killinwick on the 6th of 

 June and is now in the possession of Mr. F. Boyes. The other, 

 obtained at Flamborough on the 30th of October, is in the 

 collection of Mr. R. Crowe. 



At the meeting of the York and District Field Naturalists' 

 Society on the 14th of November 1877, Mr. Helstrip exhibited 

 a fine example shot near York. 



In the collection of Mr. Matthew Bailey of Flamborough is 

 a bird of this species shot by the fisherman Leng on the arst of 

 December 1878, whilst close to the Flamborough Lighthouse. 

 Mr. Bailey has kindly acquainted me with this interesting 

 occurrence. 



