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Swaledale. The following notes may be of interest, if only to 
show the great amount of persecution it undergoes :— 
1881, June 18th. Nest containing five young ones destroyed 
on Low Scollit, and six adults either shot or trapped in Arken- 
garthdale and the New Forest during the year. 
1882, June 5th. Nest containing five eggs taken on Kexwith 
Moor and the male bird shot. A brood got safely away from 
Cleasby, and a family of young ones was seen near Lad Gill on 
August 7th. 
1883, May 21st. Nest containing five eggs taken at the back 
of Cleasby, and the hen shot. Ten either shot or trapped in 
Arkengarthdale and the New Forest during the year. 
1884. No nests discovered on the Arkengarthdale or New 
Forest moors, but four were taken in the pole traps as they 
arrived in spring. ‘Two nests destroyed on Bowes Moor, and 
two males and one female killed. A nest destroyed on Blake- 
thwaite, where, since 1870, it has never missed breeding, and 
has as regularly been destroyed. 
1885. No nest found in Arkengarthdale or the New Forest, 
and only two birds trapped in spring. A nest was destroyed 
on Blakethwaite and another on High Seat. 
1886. No nest found in Arkengarthdale or the New Forest, 
and only one bird trapped in spring. A nest on High Seat 
and another on Blakethwaite destroyed, and in each case both 
birds killed. 
1887. No nest found in Arkengarthdale or New Forest, but 
four birds trapped in spring. Nest on Blakethwaite destroyed 
and another on Burnt Moor, and in each case both birds killed. 
1888. Nest containing young and both parents destroyed on 
Kexwith Moor and another on Bowes Moor. No nest found in 
Arkengarthdale. 
1890. Nest destroyed on Booze Moor and both birds killed, 
and another on Pin Seat. No nests on Blakethwaite, Bowes, or 
the New Forest moors. 
Tinnunculus alaudarius. Kestrel. Local names, Jack Hawk, 
Little Red Hawk, Yellow-backed Hawk, Steangall. Resident 
and still abundant, though much _ persecuted. During the 
months of July and August 1883, twenty-four were either shot 
or trapped on Bowes Moor alone. During the breeding-season 
hardly any of the limestone scars in Swaledale, the lower portion 
of the Arkle Valley, and the New Forest are without one or 
more pairs, though in the higher part of the district it is very 
____ seldom that a brood gets safely away. In Arkengarthdale 
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