400 Peacock : Tlie Birds of North-west Lindscy. 



Buzzard. — Is not rare, though not so uncommon as the 

 last three species. It visits Lincohishire every season on 

 migration, and would soon breed again if allowed. I shot a 

 male, 4th January 1891, in the Home Close, at Bottesford. 

 I saw pairs in the Eastern Woodlands in 1893, and again in 

 1900. Mr. F. M. Burton says, * Seldom seen about Gains- 

 borough. ' 



Rough-Legged Buzzard. — Not quite so common as the 

 last on migration, but it reaches us at times. Mr. J. G. Nichol- 

 son shot one near the fox-covert at Willoughton about 1887 — 

 a bird in breeding plumage. He gave me the skin, which was 

 never set up. I sent it to the late John Cordeaux in 1888. 

 I have heard of other birds, but all were immature specimens. 



Golden Eagle. — Is a rare, storm-driven visitor. Coult- 

 hurst, the late Sir Robert Sheffield's keeper, shot the last I 

 have heard of in Normanby Park, ist of November 1881. The 

 skin is at West Halton, Doncaster. It was a young male bird, 

 and had been seen at Crosby the week before. 



White-tailed Eagle. — Has drifted into this district down 

 the Humber. Mrs. H. Abey, of Cadney, told the Vicar that one 

 frequented the Ancholme Carrs, then unenclosed, about 1819. 

 This perhaps is the same specimen the late Sir Charles Anderson 

 recorded in his ' Short Guide to Lincolnshire,' Gainsborough,. 

 1847. 



Goshawk. — Is another species which rarely visits us. A 

 pair of truly wild birds tried to nest in a larch plantation 

 at Normanby in 1864. The female bird was most foolishly 

 shot, and the male bird left the neighbourhood. I shot one 

 at Bottesford which had, no doubt, escaped from a falconer, 

 for it had a ring round its left leg, 1878. 



Sparrow Hawk. — Is fairly common, and nests every year, 

 if it be not troubled, in its old home places. 



Kite. — Is now very rare, and has given up attempting to 

 nest with us. Sixty years ago it was fairly common all over. 

 In 1875 I saw one sailing over the Manor garden at Bottesford. 

 There is a specimen at Brigg which was killed by the late 

 David Hopkins in Howsham Barf Wood. 



Greenland Falcon. — There is a specimen in the Strickland 

 collection, which was trapped at Twigmoor in 1826. Stone- 

 house names it as having been obtained in the Isle of Axholme 



Gyr- Falcon. — Sir Charles Anderson records one shot at 

 Scunthorpe in 1823. 



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