BROWN AND WHITE JER-FALCONS. 19 
Latham informs us that it was then an inhabitant of Scotland, probably a 
winter visitant from its far northern home. 
Some half dozen specimens of the White Jer-Falcon are recorded as 
having been taken in England, eight in Scotland and its islands, whilst in 
Ireland but three specimens are recorded. A young bird, from which 
Yarrell’s excellent woodcut was taken, was killed in Pembrokeshire, and is 
now preserved in the British Museum. A specimen was shot in Corn- 
wall, and preserved in the collection of Mr. Rodd. Stevenson records one 
killed in Norfolk, near Cromer; Mr. Hancock one which was caught near 
York in 1837; and Mr. Roberts another specimen, captured in Robin 
Hood’s Bay, near Scarborough. Gray, in his ‘ Birds of the West of Scot- 
land,’ instances four examples as having been taken in the Hebrides, 
another in Lanarkshire, in 1835, also an immature male in Perthshire, in 
the spring of 1862. The bird described and figured in Pennant’s ‘ British 
Zoology’ was said to have been obtained near Aberdeen. On the 8rd of 
March 1866, on the authority of Dr. Saxby (Zool. p. 288), a female was 
shot on Balta, one of the Shetland Islands. Thompson records two from 
Treland, both in co. Donegal; and Mr. Blake Knox records a third, killed 
in the winter of 1862-63, and now preserved in the Museum at Dublin. 
Although we have no reason to suppose that the Iceland Jer-Falcon has 
appeared less frequently in our islands, still, possibly from its far less con- 
spicuous dress, it has certainly been less noticed and recorded. Mr. 
Hancock has two birds in his collection—one recorded in the ‘ Zoologist ’ 
(1845, p. 985), obtained at Bellingham on the North Tyne, and the other 
at Normanby, in Yorkshire, in March 1837. In Mr. Borrer’s collection 
is an adult bird, shot at Mayfield, in Sussex, in January 1845. In Scot- 
land, as may naturally be supposed, the occurrences are far more frequent. » 
Gray records numerous examples, from Ross-shire, Sutherlandshire, and 
Inverness-shire, between the years 1835-51; and in more recent years he 
is satisfied that several examples have been obtained in the west. Four 
specimens are recorded from the Hebrides; and Mr. Elwes mentions another 
trapped in 1866 in Argyllshire. In the Shetlands we have Dr. Saxby’s 
authority for the bird having been a somewhat regular visitor ; but it is now 
only occasionally seen. 
The only authentic instance of the occurrence of the Norwegian form 
of the Jer-Falcon in this country is an immature example, which was 
obtained at Orford, in Suffolk, on the 14th of October 1867. It was shot by 
Mr. George Hunt, in the act of devouring a hen, and is now in the possession 
of his brother, Mr. Edward J. Hunt, of Pimlico, by whom it was stuffed. It 
is in an excellent state of preservation ; and the plumage is scarcely at all 
abraded. The head is somewhat darker than the back; and the under- 
parts, including the thighs, are longitudinally streaked. It is probably a 
bird of the year which has not yet assumed the yellow legs. 
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