GREENLAND FALCON. 135 
birds in its stomach.! This specimen is now in the 
Warrington Museum. In the early eighties, one, now 
in the possession of Mr. H. Marsland, was shot at Wood 
Bank, Stockport; and we have seen an adult female 
of the dark form which was shot at Capesthorne in 
July or August 1897, by a man named William Crow- 
hurst. 
Having regard to the time of year when the birds, 
both adults, were killed at Bowdon and Capesthorne, 
and the fact that the Honey Buzzard has nested in 
many different places in England, it is possible that 
this species might have bred in Cheshire had they not 
met with the fate meted out to large raptorial birds 
immediately they appear. 
GREENLAND FALCON. 
FALCO CANDICANS, J. F. Gmelin. 
We have seen a specimen of the Greenland Falcon 
in the collection of the late C. S. Gregson, which was 
obtained from a sailor who had killed it on a vessel 
coming into the port of Liverpool. The evidence as 
to the locality where it was captured is not altogether 
conclusive, as the bird had been skinned by the sailor 
before it came into Mr. Gregson’s possession. This 
example was originally recorded by Mr. H. E. Smith 
as an Iceland Falcon,? but Mr. F. S. Mitchell alludes 
to it as a Greenland Falcon in his Birds of Lancashire? 
It is in adult plumage, and is undoubtedly referable 
to the Greenland species, in which the prevailing 
ground-colour is pure white. 
1 Zoologist, ser. 11. vol. ix. p. 4237. 
* Smith, op. cit. p. 235. 3 Mitchell, op. cit. p. 131. 
