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The other two Jerfalcons are the Labrador Jerfalcon and Holbdll’s 
Jerfalcon, and to these may be added the Saker Falcon. Some 
day it is likely enough that all these forms, including even the 
Saker Falcon, may come to be regarded as mere races of one and 
the same species. : 
: The Jerfalcon that was shot at Crosby Ravensworth is a beautiful 
creamy-white individual, which exhibits all the characteristics of 
the Greenland Falcon race. It remains for us to decide what 
section the Winton specimen shall be referred to. 
The description given below shews that this specimen belongs 
to the dark set with the barred flanks; it is therefore not what is 
commonly understood by the Greenland Falcon; while the un- 
usually dark colouring of its plumage, the size of its moustache, 
and the traces of transverse markings on its leg-plumes, would 
seem to warrant us in referring it to the Norwegian Falcon set, 
rather than to the Iceland Falcon proper. They that believe, as 
I do, that the Norway Falcon is only a geographical race of the 
sub-species Falco islandus, will probably think it best to leave this 
bird under the name given at the head of this notice; and Fadco 
gyrfalco, Forma islandus, is here recorded for the first time from 
any part of Cumberland and Westmorland. 
Since this communication was laid before the Cumberland 
Association the skin of the bird has been submitted to Mr. R. J. 
Howard of Blackburn, and to Mr. John Hancock of Newcastle, 
who have identified it as the Iceland Falcon, while Mr. Hancock 
further states that the specimen is that of a female bird of the first 
year. 
They that care to enquire further into this subject for themselves 
should examine the fine collection of Jerfalcons in the Museum at 
Newcastle, which is second in this respect only to the celebrated 
collection of Raptorial Birds in the Museum at Norwich; and 
should read the papers of Mr. Hancock in the Anna/s and Magazine 
of Nat. Hist. ii. p. 241, and 2nd Series xiii. p. 110; the articles in 
the Zbis for 1862 et seq.; Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. 1873, Pp. 417; 
Newton’s §Varrell’s British Birds, vol. 1; Sharpe and Dresser’s 
Birds of Europe; Gould’s British Birds ; and the various modern 
