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doubt on my mind of the hobby having occurred in this county. 
On a late visit to my friend Mr. Bichard Parker, I saw, for the 
first time, amongst his beautiful paintings, a hawk, which I could 
not for a moment hesitate in recognising as a hobby; the history 
of it is this: — A brother of his shot on the garden wall of Car- 
rigrohan, the family mansion, in the summer of 1822 (?), a hawk 
which presented so unusual an appearance, that he made a colour- 
ed drawing of it.. The size he describes as having been between 
that of a merlin and a kestrel. The painting is an exact copy of 
the coloured drawing in all respects but size, and it certainly 
answers critically the description of the hobby. The dark spots 
on the lower parts are longitudinally disposed. 
Carrigrohan is wooded and inland — three or four miles up the 
river from Cork.” 
The Hobby is called a rare summer visitant to England, but 
very little information is given respecting it as such; it seems not 
to have been met with in the north of that country, nor in 
Scotland. 
THE BED-FOOTED EALCON. 
Orange-legged Hobby. 
Falco mfi/pes, Besecke. 
vespertinus, Gmel. 
Is an extremely rare visitant. 
Its occurrence in Ireland was first noticed, in a communication 
which I made to the Zoological Society of London (in June, 1835), 
respecting an immature specimen obtained in the county of Wick- 
low, in the summer of 1832. This bird was preserved for the 
collection of T. W. Warren, Esq. of Dublin, by whose kindness 
it was exhibited on that occasion. The specimen was given to 
Mr. Warren by a gentleman who shot it in his yard, just as it 
had pounced at a pigeon of at least its own size, which, with the 
hawk, fell dead at the one discharge. In March, 1833, Mr. W. 
S. Wall, bird preserver, mentioned to me, that he had in October, 
1830, received a hobby in a fresh state, from Ballyveolan, 
