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CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



In the collection of Mr. A. Clapham of Scarborough are 

 four Yorkshire specimens, and I am indebted to. that gentleman 

 for the following information relating to them : — An adult female, 

 brought to him in the flesh in the spring of 185-, which had 

 been shot by Lady Downe's keeper at Wykeham. A young male 

 in singular "cuckoo" plumage, trapped on the Leckton Moors 

 near Pickering in June 1864 (mistaken for an Iceland Falcon, 

 Zoologist, 1864, p. 9244). A mature female, obtained through 

 Mr. Graham of York, shot in Mowbraydale above Malton ; Mr. 

 Clapham has unfortunately misplaced the memorandum of the 

 date. An adult female trapped on a rabbit warren near Harrogate 

 on the 15th of April 1871. 



In addition to these Mr. Clapham has examined four or 

 five others obtained in the neighbourhood of Scarborough, and 

 remarks that with one or two exceptions these passed through 

 the hands of Mr. A. Roberts, who has informed me that he has 

 preserved, since the year 1864, no less than five birds of this 

 species, obtained principally from Seamer and Wykeham-. 



One instance is recorded of the Goshawk nesting in Yorkshire, 

 but the authentication is so slender that no reUance can be placea 

 on it. This appeared in the Zoologist {1863, p. 8678), the 

 recorder being Mr. J. Ranson of Linton-on-Ouse near York, and 

 was as follows :— " This spring the nest of this rare bird was found 

 in some ivy which surrounds an old oak tree which is situate in 

 the boundary hedge of a plantation. I did not see the nest, but 

 the three eggs were of a very pale blue. They were unfortunately 

 broken by one of the possessor's children." 



ACCIPITEE NISUS (L.) 

 Sparrowhawk. 



A common and generally distributed resident. 



Next to the Kestrel this species is the most abundant of the 

 hawk tribe, being a generally distributed resident, breeding in almost 



Trans. Y.N.U., 187S. Series B 



