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MONTAGQ'S HARRIER {Circus cineraceiis). 

 Nov. 18th. Folkestone (Kent), one shot. 



THE COMMON BUZZARD {Buteo vulgaris). 



A single bird flyins- S. was seen on the south coast of Yorkshire on the 

 13th and two on the 17th of September. 



THE SPARROW-HAWK {Accipiter nisus). 



Several Sparrow-Hawks were recorded on passage from the Norfolk 

 coast on the 17th of September, and four more on the 20th, and about 

 the same date one was caught on a vessel off that coast. 



THE HONEY-BUZZARD (Perms «^;zz;or«5) . 



Two were seen (one being killed) in S.E. Suffolk on the 25th of 

 September ; at the end of that month another was killed in S.W. Hamp- 

 shire, and a fourth was obtained at Haddiscoe (Norfolk) in the second 

 week of October. 



THE HOBBY {Faico subbuteo). 



Single birds were reported as having been seen in N.W. AVarwickshire 

 on the 17 th of July and the 8th of August. 



THE MERLIN [Falco cesalon). 



The first migrants (single birds) were noted simultaneously on the 

 south coast of Yorkshire and the north coast of Norfolk on the 17th of 

 September, a second being recorded from the former station on the 19th. 

 During October siugle birds were seen at the same place on the 9th, 14th, 

 10th, 18th, 19th and 22nd, while on the 13th two were seen ; on three of 

 these occasions the direction of tlight was definitely noted as being to the 

 south. On the 17th of October a single bird appeared at the Isle of May 

 (Fife), and on the 20th another arrived on the S.E. coast of Sufiblk. 



THE KESTPiEL [Fulco tinnunculus). 



Several migrating Kestrels were noted on the north coast of Norfolk 

 on the 17th of September, and about the 20th one was captured on board a 

 boat ofi' the Norfolk coast. On the south coast of Yorkshire two or three 

 were seen flying south on the 21st, single birds on the 24th and 29th, 

 and on the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 14th, 23rd, 2.jth and 26th of October, while on 

 tlie 9lh two were recorded. 



