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GREENLAND FALCON. 
Case 316. 
Three different, but closely allied, species of 
large falcons, all formerly known as Gyrfalcons, in- 
habit the northern shores of the Atlantic. The home 
of one, to which the name Gyrfalcon is now usually 
confined, is in Norway. It has little or no white in 
the plumage. Another, with pale brownish grey 
plumage, (see Case 347), each feather on the back of 
the adult being tipped and barred with white, nests in. 
Iceland from which it takes its name ; while the third, 
in which the adult is pure white, with each feather on 
the body barred with brownish grey, is called the 
Greenland Falcon, as its home is in that inhospitable 
region, whence it occasionally wanders as far south 
even as the Scilly Islands. 
Our bird was acquired with the Monk Collection. 
It is a female, and was shot on the top of Bullocks 
Hill near Balsdean, on the Downs between Brighton 
and Rodmell, September 26th, 1882. It had been 
seen in the neighbourhood a day or two previously, 
and according to one observant countryman, who 
had seen it flying along the north slope of the Downs, 
it looked like a newspaper blown along open in the 
wind. However that may be, having been shot, it 
was brought into Lewes Market, where it was bought 
by Mr. Monk. It measured 4 ft. 4ins. across the 
wings and weighed 3]ks. 1lozs., and had almost com- 
pleted its autumn moult. See “Birds of Sussex,” p. 6. 
It was re-stuffed by Pratt in 1906. 
A bird of the same species had been seen near 
Lyme Regis by the late Mr. H. Swaysland of Brighton, 
on June 11th of the same year. Two days later it 
was seen (as narrated in the Jbis) to kill a tame 
pigeon at Seaton. 
SOLITARY SNIPE, 
Case 319. 
This case was designed for the late Mr. Monk, 
and 38 out of the 4 birds were his, having been ob- 
