GOSHAWK. 5 



Leicestershire (Harley*), and has occasionally been 

 found on Dartmoor (Dr. Moore). It is said to have 

 nested in Yorkshire (Ransom) f. Old works on Fal- 

 conry state that " the best Goshawks were procured 

 in the north of Ireland, as in the province of Ulster, 

 but more especially in the county of Tyrone" J. Mr. 

 Thompson, however, states (Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds, 

 i. p. 62) that the Goshawk " cannot with certainty be 

 included in the Irish fauna." An adult female 

 Goshawk shot in the Galtee Mountains, Tipperary, 

 on the 17th January, 1870, as recorded by Sir Victor 

 Brooke (' Land and Water,' 5th March, 1870), proved 

 to be the American Astur atricapillus ('Land and 

 Water,' 8th October, 1870). A young male, howevei 

 of Astur palumbarius was seen in Ballymanas Wood, 

 CO. Wicklow (' Zoologist,' 1870, p. 2283). Low was 

 doubtless mistaken in observing, in his ' Fauna Orca- 

 densis,' that the Goshawk frequents Orkney ; his 

 reference to sea-cliffs points to the Peregrine. It is 

 thought, however, to have nested in Shetland §. 



KITE. Milvus ictinus, Savigny. 



Formerly common ; now resident in few localities. 

 Used to nest in Tolvern Wood, Cornwall (BuUmore) ; 



* " A List of the Birds of Leicestershire," by James Harley, pub- 

 lished in the 3rd vol. of MacgiUivray's ' History of British Birds.' 



t The Zoologist, 1863, p. 8678. 



+ See TurbervUe's 'Book of Falconrie,' 2nd ed. 1611, p. 60; 

 ' The Gentleman's Eecreation,' 6th ed. 1721, p. 72 ; and Campbell's 

 ' Treatise on Modem Falconry,' 1780, p. 214. 



§ See Edmonstone in ' The Zoologist,' 1844, p. 459. 



