40 CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



An immature specimen was obtained near Filey early in 

 February 1877, its capture being communicated to the Zoologist 

 (1877, p. 179) by the Rev. J. G. Tuck. 



Mr. James Backhouse of York mentions (Friends' Nat. Hist. 

 Journal, 1877, p. 56) that he saw one near that city about 

 March 12th, and another at Askham Bog on the 19th of the 

 same month, 1877. 



Mr. R. Standen informs me that one was seen near the 

 Sykes, Bowland, in May 1877. 



A young male in rich immature plumage, now in my 

 possession, was shot on the warren at Kilnsea in Holderness on 

 the 1 6th of October of the year 1879, and was forwarded to me 

 on the following day. 



In addition to the above, Mr. R. Lee of Thirsk informs me 

 that it has been shot at Knapton; and Mr. A. Roberts of 

 Scarborough says it sometimes occurs on the moors near that 

 town. Three pairs have come under the notice of Mr. G. Page 

 of Guisborough during the past 1 5 years, all obtained within ten 

 miles of that town. One in the possession of Mr. Wm. Lister 

 was shot on Egton Moor by Mr. Bennison. 



CIECUS CINERACEUS {Montagu). 

 Montagu's Harrier. 



A casual visitant. 



This species appears formerly to have been more widely dis- 

 tributed in this county than either of its congeners, the Marsh 

 and the Hen Harriers, and it also was the last of the genus to 

 depart from its former haunts. Even yet it may occasionally 

 breed on some of the less frequented moors, as, indeed, we have 

 information of its doing, so recently as 1871. The species can 

 now, however, only be regarded as a casual visitor to the county, 

 occurring most probably in the autumn, at which season it is ob- 



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