Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...the lofty coasts of Donegal, as well as on the mountain precipices. There are also coast and inland nesting sites in Galloway. A few pairs breed in the Lake Mountains, if not yet exterminated, and there is (or was) an eyrie at St. Bees Head. On the north-west coast of England migrant specimens appear in autumn and winter. Though not extinct in the south and north-east coasts of England, the species has many more eyries in Wales (Mr. Oldham says there are several in Auglesea) and Scotland. In the Scottish islands it has many breeding places. FALCO 2ESALON, Tunstall. MERLIN. 'In the summer time,' says Chaloner,' there arrive here out of Ireland, and the western parts of Scotland, many of those small Hawks, called Merlyns.' He probably refers to the autumnal migration, on which this species still occurs in Man, though not numerously, as well as in spring; but two hundred and fifty years since it was likely more common over Britain. Mr. J. Kewley kept alive for some time at King William's College a specimen which had been injured by striking on the fatal telephone wires on Langness. From the information at present to hand it would seem as if its breeding here was a thing of rare and indeed casual occurrence, but this may be from lack of observation of the somewhat extensive moorland of the island at the right season, for the species is usually very constant in its choice of a site. Mr. F. S. Graves was told that some forty years ago a small blue Hawk 'no bigger than a Wood Thrush' nested among the ling at the edge of the brows of Gordon (Patrick); it may have been the same pair which, as the late Mr. Corrin told Mr. Kermode, nested at Contrary Head, near by. Dr. Crellin, writing in 1862, told Mr. More that he had no doubt that the bird bred in Man; he had been ...
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