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see what the eflPect would be. Would the eggs in each case 

 be ejected or fail to hatch? I cannot help doubting it! 

 Perhaps some day one might try the experiment. I shall 

 certainly tell you all about it if I do ! 



With many apologies for taking up so much of your 

 space. 



Yours truly, 

 Royal Naval College, A. M. C. NiCHOLL. 



Osborne, Isle of Wight. 

 20 May, 1917. 



Lanner Falcon in North Lancashire. 



Sir, — I can find no record in any modern work of the 

 Lanner Falcon (Falco feldeggi) which I recorded in ' The 

 Field ' of January 30, 1904, as having been picked up dead 

 on Carnforth Marsh, north Lancashire, on April 26, 1902. 

 I think it worthy of mention at least in the appendix of 

 the last published B. O. U. list. 



There was no doubt about the identification, for I showed 

 it to Dr. W. Eagle Clarke, who pronounced it to be a Lanner. 

 The bird, a female, was seen in the district for some weeks, 

 during which time several men tried to shoot it, and even- 

 tually it was picked up dead by the present owner, and 

 almost warm, having a recent shot-wound beneath the wing. 

 During its residence on the marsh, it appeared to live chiefly 

 on small waders. I advertised the find pretty freely among 

 Falconers, but did not receive a single reply that one was 

 missing. It is the only record for the British Isles, and I 

 venture to think as worthy of publication in the appendix of 

 the last B. O. U. list as many of those mentioned there, if 

 not more so than some of them. 



Yours truly, 

 Patchetts, Caton, H, W. Bobinson. 



nr. Lancaster. 

 7 May, 1917. 



