FALCONS 323 



One, Termoncarragli, near Uelmullet, co. Mayo, Sept, 

 1879 : A. G. More, ZooL, 1881, p. 488. In possession 

 of Mr. H. I. Richards of Barnagh, Belmullet. 



One, Ollaberry, near Lerwick, April 6, 1898 : Harvie-Brown, 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1898, p. 1032. 



Ohs. In The Zoologist for 1870 (p. 2017), Mr. 

 Rodd reported the capture of a young Iceland 

 Falcon in the parish of St. Merryn, near Padstow. 

 This proved to be a trained falcon of Lord Bute's, 

 lost from Cardiff, and hung by its leash in a tree. 

 *' Birds of Cornwall " (p. 8) and letter from Capt. 

 F. H. Salvin. 



BED-FOOTED FALCON. Falco vespertinus, Linnaeus.! 

 Length, 11*5 in. ; bill, O'To ; wing, 9*75 ; tarsus, 1 in. 



Hab. Eastern and Southern Europe ; Western Siberia ; 

 Palestine ; Northern and Western Africa in winter. 



One, Doncaster, April 1830, Foljambe, Trans. Linn. Sac, 

 vol. xvii. p. 553. Recorded as Falco rufipes. 



Four, Hornmg, and Holkham Park, Norfolk, May 1830 : 

 Yarrell, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. iv. p. 116. 



One, Littlecote Park, near Hungerford : Yarrell, " Hist. 

 British Birds." 



Two in Yorkshire, one in Durham, and one, Wembury, 

 Devonshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One, Wicklow, summer 1832 : Thompson, " Nat. Hist. Irel. 

 (Bu-ds)," i. p. 50 ; More, " List Irish Birds," p. 6 ; Ussher, 

 " Birds of Ireland," p. 146. In Museum of Science and 

 Art, Dublin ; the only Irish example known. 



One, Breydon, Norfolk, 1832 : Paget, " Sketch of the 

 Nat. Hist, of Great Yarmouth," p. 3. 



Two, Clermont, near Esher, Surrey : Meyer, " lUustr. Brit. 

 Birds and their Eggs," vol. i. p. 47. 



1 Falco vespertinus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i. p. 129 (1766). Falco 

 rufipes, Beseke, Vogel Kurlands, p. 20 (1792). 



