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GREENLAND FALCON. Falco candicans, Gmelin, 

 Length, ^ 23 in. ; bill, 1"5 in. ; wing, 16*25 in. ; tarsus, 

 2-25 in. 



Hah. ^Northern Europe and America ; Iceland ; Siberia. 



One, Pembrokesliire : Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds." In 

 the British Museum. 



One, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall : Rodd, " Birds of 

 Cornwall," p. 7. In his collection. 



One, The Lizard, Cornwall: Rodd, I.e. In possession of 

 Mr. Humphrey Grylls, of Helston. 



One, Bungay Common, Suffolk : Hunt, " British Ornith- 

 ology," figured ; Sheppard and Whitoar, " Norfolk and 

 Sufiblk Birds ; " Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xv. p. 2. 



One near York, Feb. 1837: Hancock, letter to W. 

 Thompson, " Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds)," i. p. 31. 



One, Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, Feb. 5, 1837 : Wood^ 

 Nat, 1837, p. 53. 



Two, Dunfanaghy, Donegal, Feb. 1837, and 1842: Thomp- 

 son, '' Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds)," i. p. 31. Ussher, " Birds 

 of Ireland," p. 136. 



One, Beeston, near Cromer, Feb. 1848 : Stevenson, " Birds 

 of Norfolk," i. p. 8. 



One, Trimingham, Norfolk, Nov. 1851 : Buxton, Zool.,. 

 1851, pp. 2983 and 3028 (name of locality misprinted). 



One, Robin Hood's Bay, Nov. 25, 1854: Roberts, Zool.,. 

 1855, p. 4558. In the Scarborough Museum. 



One, Dechmont, Lanarkshire, 1835: Gray, "Birds of West 

 of Scotland," p. 21. 



One, Foss, Loch Tummel, Perthshire, spring 1862. In the 

 collection of E. Clough Newcome. 



Two, Islay, Feb. 1838 (Hancock) and autumn 1862 (Gray). 

 Harvie-Brown, "Fauna Argyll," p. 109. 



Several in the Hebrides : Gray, op. cit, pp. 20-22. 



Two, Shetland, Feb. 18, 1863, and March 3, 1866: Saxby, 

 Zool, 1863, p. 8484, and 1866, p. 288. Recorded as an 

 Iceland Falcon. See Evans and Buckley, p. 118. 



