1 6 CLARKE: THE BIRD OF YORKSHIRE. 



Mr. R. Richardson of Beverley informs me that he preserved 

 a female for Mr. R. H. Barugh of Bridlington, which had been 

 shot on the yth of June 1879. 



In addition to the above instances, the Hobby is reported to 

 have occurred in the undermentioned localities, no precise in- 

 formation being given : — 



Halifax (Mr. Leyland, 1828); Barden and Bolton (Mr. H. 

 Denny, 1840); Kirklees and Castle Hill, near Huddersfield 

 (Mr. Inchbald, 1859) ; Killingbeck, near Leeds (Mr. John Dixon, 

 1853) ; Carlton and the moors West of Barnsley (Mr. T. Lister) ; 

 Bridlington (Mr. M. Lawson, 1879); Stainland (Mr. C C. Han- 

 son, 1879); a summer visitor to Scarborough but not plentiful 

 (Mr. A. Roberts, 1879). 



FALCO VESPEETINUS L. 

 Red-footed Falcon. 



A rare and accidental visitant. 



In the year 1830 this species, which appears to have been 

 to this date an entire stranger to Britain, occurred almost simul- 

 taneously in this county and in Norfolk. The first of these 

 occurrences took place in our county in the month of April, when 

 a male was shot near Doncaster, which was reported to the 

 Linnean Society at its meeting on the ist of May 1832 (Transac- 

 tions, xvii. p. 533) in a letter from Mr. H. S. Foljambe. Four 

 specimens were shot in Norfolk during the following month. 



Since 1830 it is reported to have been obtained on twelve 

 different occasions. One in the Sheffield museum, said to have been 

 killed in that neighbourhood, is recorded in the Zoologist (1843, 

 p. 247) by Mr. Heppenstall. 



In May 1844 a fine female was shot in Stainer Wood, near 

 Selby, by a gamekeeper of the Right Hon. E. R. Petre. It passed 

 into the possession of Mr, Massey Hutchinson of Selby (Zoologist, 

 1844, p. 654). 



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



