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however, instances recorded of its being obtained in January and 

 in June. 



In the year 1825 one killed at Cusworth near Doncaster 

 by the gamekeeper of Mr. W. B. Wrightson, M.P., was mentioned 

 by Mr. Thomas Allis in 1844. 



Near Easington in Holderness, a male and female were shot 

 on the 15th of October 1852, by G. S. Gibbs, gamekeeper to Mr. 

 H. Kirk of Stockton-on-Tees, as mentioned in Morris's Naturalist 

 (1853, p. 19) by Mr. D. Graham of York. 



At the meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Club on the 2nd 

 of March 1864, Mr. D. Graham of that city exhibited a fine 

 specimen taken near Oswaldkirk by Mr. J. Bower. 



Mr. R. Lorrimer shot a fine specimen whilbt in pursuit of its 

 prey on Filey Brigg in the first week of October, 1864; the 

 fact being communicated to the Sheffield Daily Telegraph (Oct. 

 8th, 1864) by Colonel Newman, mention being also made of it 

 in the Zoologist (1S64, p. 9327). 



On the 29th of August 1875, one was shot at Evecote near 

 Whitby, a note of it being included in the Rural Notes commu- 

 nicated to the Yorkshire Post (14th March 1876) by Mr. Geo. 

 Roberts of Lofthouse. 



About the year 1877 a Goshawk was shot at Whitby by Mr. 

 T. Crosby, for whom it was stuffed by Mr. Kitching of that town. 



Mr. Matthew Bailey of Flamborough has sent me the 

 particulars of a specimen obtained near Flamborough ; from this 

 communication the following account is condensed : — The bird, 

 a fine old female, had frequented the neighbourhood for some 

 weeks, baffling all attempts made to shoot it until the 23rd of 

 January 1877, when it was observed by the gamekeeper of the 

 Rev. Lloyd Greame of Sewerby Hall, to kill a full-grown rabbit, 

 witich it had carried about twenty yards when he shot at but missed 

 it. Concealing himself in an adjoining wood the keeper had not 

 long to wait, as the bird soon returned and was shot. This bird, 

 Mr. Bailey informs me, is now in the collection of Sir John Crewe, 

 Bart. 



