APPENDIX 



Our object in adding this Appendix is simply a wish to make the 

 book more complete by adding notices, more or less detailed, of the 

 nests and eggs and any interesting breeding-season peculiarities of 

 birds recognised as really well entitled to the name of British Birds, 

 but not happening to remain within the limits of Britain to breed. 

 The first bird of the kind in our complete list is — i 



, , - ■ GREENLAND FALCON, 

 The equivalent to Mr. Yarrell's Gyr Falcon. 



I ^ ICELAND FALCON. 



These two species are now, I believe, looked upon as established, 

 but the differences between them are not excessively striking, except 

 it be to a scientific naturalist. Mr. Hewitson has figured an egg of 

 the Iceland Falcon which he believes may have lost some of its 

 colour. It was taken from a nest made with sticks and roots, lined 

 with wool, which once perhaps was the nest of a Raven. The nest 

 in question was in a cliff, and had the remains of many sorts of birds 



1 If any reader desires to know more about the breeding habits of the birds not 

 mentioned in this Appendix, the " Ibis " List named in the text above in several 

 places will give him ready means of acquiring the information desired. 



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