306 FALCONID^. 



rosy-pink shell-markings, intermixed with pale reddish-brown 

 blotches and spots on a creamj'-white ground ; whilst others have 

 the spots and blotches mostly confined to the larger end of the egg, 

 leaving the white under-surface exposed to view." 



Hierofalco candicans (Gm.). 



Falco candicans, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 2''''\ fig. 2 (18-55-63) ; 

 Dressei-, Birds Eur. vi. p. 21 (1876) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 16, 

 pi. 3 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 4, pi. 1. fig. 2 (1896). 



Hierofalco caiidicans, Hharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 411 (1874) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 276 (1899). 



The eggs of the Greenland Jer-Falcon measure from 2-25 to 2'42 

 in length, and from 1-73 to 1-86 in breadth. 



2. Greenland. Gould Coll. 



3. Greenland. Govenor HolboU [C.]. 



2. Greenland {R. Miiller). Seebohm Coll. 



1 Greenland. Crowley Bequest. 



3. North Greenland. Seebohm Coll. 



1. East Greenland (^. <S'?/i«7es). Ciowley Bequest. 



Hierofalco islandus {Gm.). 



Falco islandicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 26. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Hewitson, Eqgs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 22, pi, vii. (1856) ; Seebohm, 



Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 3, pi. 1. fig. 1 (1896). 

 Hierofiilco" islandus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 414 (1874); id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 276 (1899). 

 Falco islandus, Dresser, Bird-i Eur. vi. p. 25 (1876). 



The eggs of the Iceland Jer-Falcon measure from 2-2 to 2-4 in 

 length, and from 1-7 to 1-93 in breadth. 



Iceland. Salvin-Godtnan ColL 



Iceland. Seebohm Coll. 



Iceland. Crowley Bequest. 



Iceland ( W. Proctor). Seebohm Coll. 



Iceland ( W. P.). Crowley Bequest. 



Iceland ( W. P.). Crowley Bequest. 



Husavig, Iceland ( W. P.). Seebohm Coll. 



Husavig (Benzon). Seebohm Coll. 



Hierofalco rusticolus {Linn.). 



Falco (Hierofalco) gyrfalco, rar. sacer, Baird, Brewer ^-Ridgiv. N. Amer. 



Birds, iii. p. 115 (1874). 

 Falco rusticolus gvrfalco, Nelson, Ecport Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 146 



(1887); MacFnrlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. 3Ius. xiv. p. 434 (1892); 



Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 283, pi. ix. figs. 6, 8, & 



9 (1892). 

 Hierofalco rusticolus, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 276 (1899). 



The egg of MacFarlane's Jer-Falcon in the Collection measures 

 2-37 by 1-74. 



1. 'FoYtYvikoYi,A\a.ik& {Strachan Jones: Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Henshaw Coll.). 



