BIRDS. 45 



Beningborough Park, near York, one trapped, Jan. 1838 

 (Wood's Nat, 1838, iii. p. 214). 



Hunmanby, one shot July 24, 1844, now in the Scarborough 

 Museum (Birds of Yorkshire, p. 2). 



East Riding: 'Arthur Strickland reports that one has been 



killed' (Alhs, 1844)- 

 Kildale, one shot on Court Moor, Christmas, 185 1, now in 



the collection of Capt. Turton, of Upsall Castle (Birds of 



Yorkshire, p. 2). 



Skerne, near Driffield, a female in first year's plumage, shot 

 Dec. i86i,no\vin the Norwich Museum (Cordeaux, Birds 

 of Humber, p. i). 



Thornton, near Pickering, one shot in 1864 (Birds of York- 

 shire, p. 3). 



170. Haliaetus albicilla (X.). Sea-Eagle. 



Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, most frequent in the 

 winter and on the coast, but not confined to it. All the 

 specimens known to have occurred were in immature 

 pluQiage, but a bird shot at Castle Howard in 1841 had 

 only two or three feathers of the tail tipped with black, 

 having only these to lose in order to attain to mature 

 plumage ; it is now in the Leeds Museum. 



171. Astur palumbarius (X.). Goshawk. 



Casual visitant, of rare occurrence, in spring and autumn ; 

 has been observed once or twice in winter, and is most 

 frequent on the coast aiid its vicinity. 



172. Accipiter nisus (X.). Sparrow-Hawk. 



Resident, generally distributed, fairly numerous ; observed 

 on the coast as a regular autumn immigrant. 



173. Milvus ictinus Savigny. Kite. 



Casual visitant, of very rare occurrence ; formerly resident, 

 and probably numerous, but there is positive evidence of its 

 nesting in two instances only. These are Edlington 

 Wood, where a pair were taken from the nest by Hugh 

 Reid, about 1824 ; and Murton W^ood, near Hawnby, 

 where, early in the present century, Mr. Charles Harrison 

 shot the female off the nest, also obtaining the male. 



