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of 1881, and another in October, 1886. One seen near Scar 
Wood, in September 1886, another in December 1888, and one 
near Booze, Arkengarthdale, 27th December, 1882. One seen 
near Helwith, in the New Forest, 15th March, 1882. 
Archibuteo lagopus. Rough-legged Buzzard. A fairly 
regular autumn and winter visitor to the moors. One shot 
at Ellerton about 1876; another trapped in Arkengarthdale 
in October 1887. ce 
Accipiter nisus. Sparrow-hawk. A resident and still common 
species throughout the district, few plantations of any size being 
without a pair, and this in spite of very great persecution. 
Milvus ictinus. Kite. Has not occurred within recent years. 
Mr. Goodchild in his list (‘ Naturalist,’ August 1890) says it was 
common thirty years ago. 
Falco peregrinus. Peregrine Falcon. Local name, Great 
€ A pair usually breed on some crags not far 
distant from the head of Swaledale, consequently it is observed 
on the moors in the upper part of the district at all seasons of 
the year, and may fairly be called a resident species. During 
the autumn and winter months it becomes more common, owing 
to migratory individuals making a passing stay. In the spring 
of 1881 one was shot near Kisdon Force, in Swaledale, and in 
the December following another was obtained from the same 
locality. In January 1886 one was picked up dead in William 
Gill, Arkengarthdale, and in the autumn of the same year one 
was seen to carry off a grouse on Blakethwaite Moor, in Swale- 
dale. In December 1888 one was seen near Shaw Farm, 
Arkengarthdale, and another on the West Moors on the 31st of 
the same month. 
Falco zxsalon. Merlin. Local name, Little Blue Hawk. 
Resident on the moors for the greater part of the yeal, 
leaving us towards October and returning again about the 
middle of March. Occasionally a straggler is observed in 
winter, generally in Lower Swaledale. It still breeds not 
uncommonly on the high moors, the favourite sites being Low 
Scollit, and either Booze Moor, Cleasby, Hoove, or Anniside n 
Arkengarthdale, Kexwith Moor in the New Forest, and Little 
Pin Seat, Friarfold Moss, Blakethwaite, High Seat, Shunnor 
Fell, and Grinton and Hurst Moors in Swaledale. There are 
also regular nesting-sites on Bowes and Scargill Moors and near 
Tanhill, all in the immediate neighbourhood. Sixteen years 
ago it used to breed on Ellerton and other moors in Lowet 
Naturalist, 
