26 CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



The veteran naturalist, the late Mr. Charles Waterton of 

 Walton, in Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist. (1835), remarked that "of 

 all the large wild birds which formerly were so common in this 

 part of Yorkshire, the Heron alone can now be seen. The Kite, 

 the Buzzard, and the Raven have been exterminated long ago by 



our merciless gamekeepers Kites were frequent here in 



the days of my father ; but I, myself, have never seen one near 

 the place." 



Dr. Farrar of Barnsley, in a MS. list of the birds of that 

 district, dated 1844, mentioned specimens at Horsecar Wood in 

 1833, and at Lunn Wood in 1844. The woods adjoin each other 

 and are two miles from Barnsley on its eastern quarter. 



In a list of birds prepared for this work by Mr. Wm. Lister 

 of Glaisdale, in Cleveland, for which I am indebted to Mr. Thomas 

 Stephenson of Whitby, that gentleman states that he shot a Kite in 

 Glaisdale in the year 1843 or 1844 and that one was also trapped 

 by Mr. W. Bennison of Egton Bridge and stuffed by the late Mr. 

 Ruddock. 



Mr. C. C. Oxley of Ripon informs me that a specimen in his 

 collection was killed in Redcar in 1837. 



Mr. Allis stated {1844) that it was of very rare occurrence 

 near Halifax, that Mr. Charles Waterton had observed it near 

 Huddersfield, and that Mr. W. Eddison had seen one specimen, 

 shot near Penistone. 



A female was shot near Market Weighton on the 5th of July 

 1850, as recorded in the Zoologist (1850, p. 2952) by Mr. J. C. 



Garth. 



Mr. James Varley, of Almondbury near Huddersfield, informs 

 me that he saw one on the wing near that place in the summer of 



1853- 



In the Zoologist (1859, p. 6561), Mr. A. Roberts of Scai- 



borough recorded one, a male in fine feather, shot near that town 

 in the spring of 1859. 



About 1864 a Kite shot by Mr. R. Hill near Newholme was 

 stuffed by Mr. Kitching of Whitby. 



Trans. Y.N.U., 1878, Series B 



