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Later White wrote to Barrington concerning this and 
another specimen : " One of the keepers of Wolmer Forest 
sent me a peregrine falcon, which he shot on the verge of 
that district as it was devouring a wood-pigeon. ... It 
measured 42 inches from wing to wing, and 21 from 
beak to tail, and weighed two pounds and a half standing 
weight." 
He was quite unaware that it was a resident species on 
the coast, but supposed that it " was driven from the 
mountains of North Wales or Scotland, where they are 
known to breed, by rigorous weather and deep snows that 
had lately fallen." 
Colonel Hawker in his " Diary " calls this species by the 
name of Goshawk, and it is even now not infrequently 
known by that name. 
Numerous specimens have been procured in all parts 
of the county, and we have not thought it necessary to 
give all the occurrences, but it is probably more common 
in the south of the county than in the north. 
Munn saw one on January 14th, 1905, flying over 
Boscombe, low down above the buildings near the Arcade, 
and in the direction of the Isle of Wight. 
137. Fako stthbuteo. Hobby. 
A regular summer visitor to all wooded districts in 
the county, arriving in May and departing as soon as the 
young are reared. 
It is a rare visitor, but is probably considered rarer 
than it really is, as it does not arrive until the trees 
' Letter Ivii. to Barrington. 
