FALCONS 321 



One, Ireland, spring 1863 : Blake Knox, Zool, 1863, p. 8523. 



Recorded as an Iceland Falcon. 

 One, Rathlin, co. Antrim, March 9, 1865. Seen and 



identified by Mr. Howard Saunders. 

 One, Islay, winter 1867. Identified by Mr. H. J. Elwes. 

 One near Beauly, Inverness-sbire, winter 1871 : R. Gray, 



op. cit. In the collection of Mr. R. M. Barrington. 

 One on the Skelligs, Sept. 28, 1887. In the collection of 



Mr. R. M. Barrington. 

 One picked up dead on the Llanbedo Estate, Ruthin, 



April 1, 1876 : Dobie, " Bu-ds of Cheshire," p. 315. 

 One, Balsdean, Sussex, Sept. 26, 1882 : T. J. Monk, Zool, 



1883, p. 34, and Gurney, p. 80; Borrer, "Birds of Sussex," 



p. 6. In collection of Mr. Monk. 

 One on the Black Rock, co. Mayo, Nov. 9, 1883. 

 One, Black Rock, co. Cork, Nov. 23, 1883 : Ussher, " Birds 



of Ireland," p. 137. 

 Two, Teraght Rock, March 23 and April 2, 1884. In the 



Dublin Museum. 

 One, Moville, co. Donegal, Nov. 1, 1887. In the British 



Museum. 

 One, Glenmore, Donegal, Sept. 13, 1882: Ussher, p. 137. 

 One m Achill, Dec. 12, 1891 : Barrington, Zool, 1892, p. 77. 

 One near Annestown, coast of Waterford, winter 1893-94. 



In the collection of Mr. Ussher. 



Ohs. In the Greenland Falcon the general colour 

 is ivhite marked with brown, and with no bars on 

 the flanks. In the Iceland Falcon the ground colour 

 of the upper plumage is ash-g7^ey, each feather 

 barred and tipped with white, and flanks barred. 

 In the Greenland bird the beak is yelloivish-ivhite 

 at all ages ; in the Icelander it is always dark. For 

 remarks on the sequence of plumage, see Sharpe, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873, p. 417; and for notes on 

 Irish specimens of the Greenland Falcon, see Warren, 



