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he says, " when the conscientious compiler must eliminate 

 these interlopers " (p. xxiv).* Mr. Harting's method, which 

 proceeds on an intermediate principle, has appeared to me 

 the best to go upon, and I have accordingly followed it 

 throughout the present Catalogue- The only difficulty of 

 this arrangement consists in drawing the line between 

 tolerably regular, though rare, vistants and those which can 

 only be regarded as purely accidental. 



The native countries of the birds which follow will be 

 found enumerated in the above List, and in Harting's Hand- 

 book, as well as in the various histories of European and 

 British Birds. They are but very lightly, if at all, touched 

 upon in these pages. 



Greenland Falcon, Falco candicans, Gmelin. 

 S. and W. Cat. 2. — Spald. List, xxxv. 



East Suffolk. 



1. One shot on Bungay Common, only slightly wounded, and lived 

 for some time in Mr. Cooper's possession (S. and W. u. s., who call it 

 a Gyr-Falcon, and Harting's Handbook, 85, Spald, u.s.); this example was 

 first recorded and figured in Hunt's Brit. Ornith, (i., 69) ; Mr. Cooper, 

 at whose sale at Cove it was sold (F. M. Spalding MS.), considered 

 that it was Latham's Var. B. of the Iceland Falcon, which he calls the 

 Spotted Iceland Falcon, and, remarking on its tameness, suggests that 

 it may have been an escaped bird (Hunt, a. s.; see also YarrelFs Brit. 

 Birds by Newton, i., 42); it is now in Lord Huntingfield's Collection 

 (Stev. B. of N. i., 7). Some years back Mr. Spalding, sen. assured Mr. 

 Stevenson that a Greenland Falcon was shot by a keeper, named Martin, 

 in the employ of John Lea Farr, Esq., of North Cove Hall ; he shot it 

 after watching it some nights, and noticing that it always took the same 

 route to roost in a wood; he described it as a large white Falcon, with 

 a few dark spots; he gave it to a farmer, but it was not preserved 

 (H. Stevenson in titt.). 



4. One caught in Westerfield, and kept alive for some weeks; it was 

 in pursuit of a bird flying over a pond in the park, struck at the bird, 

 which it missed, and fell into the water ; it managed to creep out, but its 

 wings were so wet that it could not fly, and was caught by a man 



* Prof. Newton tells me that these 1853 (Eggs of Br. JB., Ed. 3, Pref. 2), and 



views were held by other ornithologists* that something very like them may be 



before Mr. Newman enunciated them; seen in F. Z. S., 1860, 131, 132. 

 that Hewitson gave utterance to them in 



