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and female, and a young male in immature 

 plumage. A fourth specimen, a female, was also 

 shot in Holkham park." A notice has been 

 since read to the Linnaean Society, by Mr 

 Foljambe,* of the capture of a male in Yorkshire, 

 "and an immature specimen was shot in the 

 county of Wicklow, in the summer of 1832, and 

 forms part of the collection of T. W. Warren, 

 Esq. of Dublin ;"f and these are all, we believe, 

 that have hitherto been recorded. J On those 

 parts of the European continent, that lie adjacent 

 to Britain, the Red-legged Falcon is also rare. 

 It appears to be a bird delighting in a wild 

 mountainous but wooded region ; France and 

 Holland are therefore nearly as unsuited to its 

 liking as Britain. In the first, it is accounted rare, 

 and it has not been found at all in the latter ; in the 

 Tyrol and Switzerland it begins to appear, ranges 

 through Poland and Austria, and is common in 

 Russia ; of its distribution, farther, we have no 

 record. Though agreeing with the Falcons in 

 general form, it must be reckoned as diverging 

 towards the aberrant species ; there are some 

 modifications in the form of the wings, and reti- 

 culation of the tarsi, and its food seems to be 



xMagazine of Zool. &c. iv. p. 116. 

 t See Proceedings of Zool. Society, 1835. 

 t Gould's Birds of Europe. Mr Yarrell mentions one 

 or two additional instances in his Brit. Birds. 



