GREENLAND FALCON. 7 



FALCO CANDICANS (Gmelin). 

 GREENLAND FALCON. 



The late Mr. Hunt, of Norwich, in his " British Orni- 

 thology,"^ has figured, or perhaps more correctly speak- 

 ing, caricatured a bird of this species which was killed 

 many years back on Bungay common, and being only 

 slightly wounded in the pinion, lived for some time in 

 confinement. This bird, says Mr. Hunt, from its 

 extreme tameness, "eating readily from the hand of 

 the servant who attended him," was generally supposed 

 to have escaped from some falconer. From Mr. T. M. 

 Spalding, of Westleton, I learn that this same specimen 

 was given by King, the man who shot it, to the late 

 John Cooper, Esq., of Bungay, and at his death it was 

 purchased at the sale at North Cove Hall, for the present 

 Lord Huntingfield, in whose collection it is still pre- 

 served. Mr. Spalding, who had many opportunities of 

 examining this falcon both at Bungay and Cove, says, 

 "It was preserved by W. C. Edwards, and was a 

 beautiful male, the spots of black very minute, and the 

 upper portion of the beak much elongated, the only 

 symptom I could see of its ever being in captivity," and 

 this peculiarity is particularly marked in Mr. Hunt's 

 drawing. The statement of Messrs. Sheppard and 

 Whitear,f that this bird formed part of Mr. Spalding's 



* " British Ornithology, containing portraits of all the British 

 birds, including those of Foreign origin which have become 

 domesticated; drawn, engraved, and coloured after nature." By J. 

 Hunt. 3 vols., 8vo. ; Norwich, 1815 ; printed by Bacon and Co. 



f " A Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, withKemarks. 

 By the Eev. Eevett Sheppard, A.M., F.L.S., and the Eev. William 

 Whitear, A.M., F.L.S.," published in the 15th vol. of the Linnean 

 Society's Transactions, MDCCCXXVI. 



