42 PEAKE : THE AVI-FAUNA OF SETTLE AND UPPER RIBBLESDALE. 



Dendrocopus major. Great Spotted Woodpecker. Used 



to be known here. I have seen one that was shot in Clapham 

 Woods, but believe it to be very rare now. 



Alcedo ispida. Kingfisher. Breeds in suitable spots, and seems 

 to have increased somewhat of late years. My notes of its 

 appearance on the Ribbie are generally in Oct. and Nov., and 

 again in January. 



Cuculus canorus. Cuckoo. Common summer visitant. Miss 



Watkins, who has found many eggs, observes that it never 

 occurs amongst a full clutch, and suggests that the cuckoo 

 tastes one or more of the victim's eggs to test if they are yet 

 incubated. 



Strix flammea. Barn Owl. Not very common. One has for 



many years nested under the roof of the Hostel at Giggleswick 

 Grammar School. A fine young bird with slight down covering 

 its plumage, was blown down by a gale on Nov. 7th, 1888. 



Asio otus. Long-eared Owl. Not common. Has bred at 



Lawkland. 



Asio brachyotus. Short-eared Owl. Local name 'Moss-Owl/ 



Occurs occasionally in autumn on the moors, by the wall-sides ; 

 has nested at Mai ham, and Mr. Hammond's keeper at Arncliffe 

 has a case of the parents and young, taken near there. 



Syrnium aluco. Tawny or Wood Owl. Fairly common. 



Miss Watkins has found one at Lawkland, nesting in a rabbit- 

 burrow. 



Buteo vulgaris. Common Buzzard. Occasionally occurs, 



especially in winter. Has bred recently in Dentdale. Asking 

 a keeper the other day about this bird, he told me there was 

 one hanging on his door at that moment. 



Astur palumbarius. Goshawk, Lord Henry Bentinck's 



keeper at Dee Side, near Dent Station, has a badly preserved 

 specimen, shot by him ten years ago. 



Accipiter nisus. Sparrowhawk. Fairly common. 



Milvus ictinus. Kite. Local name 'Glead/ Used to occur 

 not infrequently in the memory of some, especially near 

 Wharfe, and on Greygreth. 



Pandion haliaetus. Osprey. Reported as seen at Coniston 



in April 1852. 



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s apivorus. Honey Buzzard. Mr. Foster has one in 



his collection which was shot by himself on Penyghent. 



Naturalise, 



