42 FALCONIDiE. 



travels. It has very probably occurred on the continent of 

 Europe, but, oAving to the way in which it has been con- 

 founded with the cognate forms, the point cannot at j^resent 

 be decided. The same confusion renders useless many of 

 the records of the appearance of large Falcons in the United 

 Kingdom ; but the following seem trustworthy as referring to 

 the subject of this article. 



The young bird from which the figure here given was taken, 

 was shot in Pembrokeshire in a warren belonging to Lord 

 Cawdor, and by him presented to the Zoological Society, 

 whence it passed to the British Museum, where it now is. 

 It had been observed, says Mr. Tracey (Zoologist, p. 2639), 

 by his father for eight or ten days before it was killed. A 

 specimen taken at Port Eliot, in Cornwall, and now in the 

 collection of Mr. Ptodd, as stated in the second edition 

 of his ' List of British Birds ' (but said by Mr. Brooking 

 Howe to be the example whose occurrence on the Lynher, in 

 February, 1834, was mentioned by Dr. Edward Moore) is 

 believed by Mr. Rodd to be of this form, as is probably one 

 obtained at the Lizard, and also recorded by him. Hunt, 

 in his ' British Ornithology,' has figured an example taken 

 alive on Bungay Common in Suffolk, some sixty years since, 

 but from its tameness it had possibly escaped from a falconer. 

 In Norfolk one was killed, according to Mr. Stevenson, in 

 February, 1848, near Cromer, and other large Avhite Fal- 

 cons have been seen in that county, as well as in Suffolk. 

 In Yorkshire, there is Mr. Hancock's excellent authority for 

 the occurrence of one, which was wounded near York in 

 February, 1837, and kept alive for some time by Mr. Allis ; 

 and Mr. Roberts has recorded (Zool., p. 4558) one which was 

 killed in Robin Hood's Bay, in November, 1854. A young 

 male killed in Islay, in February, 1838, has come under Mr. 

 Hancock's inspection, but at least four are mentioned by Mr. 

 Robert Gray, in his work, as having been killed of late years 

 in the Hebrides ; while two more have, on the same authority, 

 occurred in other parts of Scotland- — one in Lanarkshire in 

 1835, and the other, an immature male, now in Mr. New- 

 come's collection, in Perthshire in the spring of 1862. The 



