/ .W/A-M. - ado, I-"' 



four CI^ITS early in May. I >n<- dutch f three eggs taken t 



L-ipland M i hi, 1889 The 



ni'l (! MM- is li^'ht red. mottled an. I clouded o\.-r with 

 iish l.niwn. They in- l'> and 



Th. -re are Chree sp< . fair. .n that 



found both in Kurope ami Aim-rim : The whit-- r (In-cnland 



falcon, tin- .14 ray >r Iceland ^\ r tali ami tin- ^'yr falcon. 



I'lieiv hasalua\ Mm- c< Mit'n-i- >n alMit tin- gyr falcons 



irciMint !' th.-if ilitf'.-ivnt ^n^-- - >t' j)hunage, but th<- t 

 ^oin^ thr-'- NjM-cifs a iv mi\v wcll-i-stalilisln-d. 



Tin- Irt-laml ^yi- t'alc.Mi is a hamls Mm- Kinl ami lays haml- 

 si'ine eggs, as I can t-stit'y l,y a tim- scries of thirty -six eggs 

 m>\v Kft'oiv IIH-, \vhich is j>n>l>al>ly tin- lar_ 

 I'l-.Mi^ht t'l-vtln-r : all these eggs arc from Ici-laml, when- 

 Itirls breed among the crags of tin- s,-a c i.ist. Tin- late W. 

 < Flint, of San Francisco, an enthusiastic oologist. had also a 

 nice s.-r; be of tin- Ic'-laml falcon, which I oKtaincd for 



him. Tin- s.-ri.--, on tin- tal>lc l..-for.- im- \\.TC sch-ctcd from 

 close iij>on fifty sjH'cinicns that hav.- l.i-i-n collected in Iceland 

 this la^t si\ yeara. Tin- i-^ifs of this l.jrd arc the most beauti- 

 ful of all tin- falcons, and it is m-i-dlcs.s to .say I am proud of my 

 s. Tin- number of cc^rs laid by this g] usually 



three or four: 1 have four clutdies of four e^rs, six dutches 

 ..f tin--. in! one dutch of t\\-o e^-rs. The e^s vary 



greatly even from tin- same m-st and are not unlike pciv^rine 

 falcon's ,-^^s in style of colouring, but, of course, a n twice as 

 In some sj.ecim.-ns tin- ground colour is cinnamon or 

 but!', distinctly spotted and blotched with deeper cinnamon 

 brown: in others tin- pale ground colour is almost corn-ruled 

 with speckles , ,f reddish-brow n H H ov ,-r t : jain. 



some are an uniform cinnamon or brick-re. 1 colour without 

 any spots what.-v. r. and tin- darker specimens have the ground 

 colour, reddish-brown, speckled, mottled and clouded over with 

 rich reddish-brown, and these dark \arieti.-s resemble some 

 specimens of tin- K^yptian vultui an-1 ( 'aracara eagle. Mr. 

 Hid^wav. in his manual x 'n-American birds, e^ivcs the 



of the rmrs of tile _ falco|| | 7 '_' tl 



