320 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Percival Westell, Ibis, 1901, p. 515), but as one nest was 

 placed in a cliff and the second on the ground, and both 

 contained four eggs, there can be Httle doubt that the identi- 

 fication of the species was incorrect (c/. F. C. R. Jourdain, 

 i.e., p. 737).] 



GREENLAND FALCON Falco candicans J. F. Gm. 

 S. page 341. 



This Falcon occurs every year in small numbers in Scotland, 

 but elsewhere in the British Islands its occurrence is rare. 



England. — Examples have been obtained in Suffolk and 

 Norfolk, which are additional to the counties mentioned by 

 Saunders (c/. Harting's Handbook, pp. 320-321), while an 

 adult male in the Exeter Museum was shot on Lundy Island, 

 March 13th, 1903 (J. Cummings, ZooL, 1905, p. 110), and a 

 male was shot at Tresco, Scilly Isles, on March 27th, 1903 

 (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd. t.c, 1906, p. 300). 



Ireland. — An immature example was trapped on Horn 

 Head, co. Donegal, at the end of December, 1903 (H. Ehot 

 Howard, ZooL, 1904, p. 115). In March, 1905, there was a 

 regular " visitation " of these birds to the west coast of 

 Ireland, one being seen on Clare Island, co. Mayo, and one 

 on Owey Island, co. Donegal, while three were obtained, 

 and three more seen in co. Donegal, and three were obtained 

 on the Great Skellig, co. Kerry, another was shot at Mizen 

 Head, co. Cork, and a nearly adult female was trapped at 

 Crossmolina, co. Mayo (E. Williams, Irish N., 1905, p. 201). 

 One was shot at Glenties, co. Donegal, on October 25th, 1905 

 (D. C. Campbell, t.c, p. 263) ; another was shot near Carrick- 

 fergus in co. Antrim, on February 12th, 1906 (R. Patterson, 

 t.c, 1906, p. 77). 



ICELAND FALCON Falco islandus J. F. Gm. S. page 343. 



This Falcon is evidently a very much rarer visitor than 

 the previous species to any part of the British Isles. 



England. — An adult male was shot near St. Martin's 

 Day mark, Scilly Isles, on January 15th, 1895, " when three 

 or four others were seen at the same time " (J. Clark and 

 F. R. Rodd, ZooL, 1906, p. 300). One previously recorded 

 as a Gyr-Falcon was shot on the Wemmergill Moors, 

 YorksJiire, in the spring of 1846, and is now in Mr. Nelson's 



