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young female was obtained at Upper Poppleton, as mentioned 

 in the Zoologist (1861, p. 7312), by David Graham of York, 

 who purchased the bird for five shillings. This bird is now 

 in the collection of Mr. A. Clapham of Scarborough, who 

 possesses not a few Yorkshire rarities, and who has also been 

 at considerable trouble in furnishing valuable information 

 and replying to numerous enquiries. 



The fourth specimen is also in Mr. Clapham's collection : 

 it was killed by Mr. Lorrimer on Filey Brigg, on 4th October 

 1864, while in company with another of the same species, 

 which escaped. This individual for some time proved a puzzle 

 to Mr. Clapham's friends, who thought it to be a young 

 Peregrine. At length it was submitted to Mr. H. E. Dresser, 

 author of the " Birds of Europe/' for his opinion ; in a letter 

 from that ornithologist he states : " The other bird is not 

 a Jer Falcon but an Iceland Falcon, not in mature plumage 

 and most probably, if not certainly, a male. It is a capital 

 specimen." 



Mr. Thomas Stephenson of Whitby states (MS.), that 

 about the year 1865, Mr. Kitching, the bird preserver, of 

 that town, found one nailed on a wall along with other 

 " vermin " at Newton House near Whitby, by the game- 

 keeper Parker, who shot it. Mr. Kitching removed the bird, 

 but it had been exposed too long to make a specimen of ; 

 he retained portions and thinks they belong to this species. 



The sixth, and until now unrecorded, instance is, chrono- 

 logically speaking, the third. The specimen is in immature 

 plumage and is one of two which occurred on the Wemmergill 

 Moors in north Yorkshire, in the spring of 1846, and was 

 purchased in the flesh by the late Joseph Duff of Bishop 

 Auckland, in whose collection it remained, labelled "Jer 

 Falcon," until his decease, when it passed into the possession 

 of his son, the late Theo. Duff. The collection was sold in 

 1901, and I purchased the example under consideration. (See 

 also Zool. 1851, p. 3036, where this bird is recorded in mis- 

 take as " Gyrfalcon, got at Werner Gill, in Northumberland."} 



The Jer Falcon supposed to have occurred on the Lockton 

 Moors, near Pickering, and recorded in the Zoologist (1864, 



