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The hyperborean regions are the native place of this Falcon: 

 thence indeed its specific name. It occurs in the Shetland 

 and Orkney Islands, but is considered by Mr. Low, in his 

 'Fauna Orcadensis', to be only a visitant even there, and not 

 a permanent resident. Iceland, Greenland, and the parallel 

 parts of North America, and Northern Asia, are its proper 

 haunts, as also Norway, Russia, and Lapland, and it is occa- 

 sionally met with in the northern parts of Germany, and the 

 south of Sweden. In Asia too, in Siberia. 



The Jer has been but rarely killed in this country: a few 

 in Scotland, and still fewer in England, Wales, and Ireland. 



In Yorkshire, one is said to have been obtained in the year 

 184-7, in the month of March: another was shot in the year 

 1(837, March 13th., in the parish of Sutton-upon-Derwent, 

 near York, and was kept alive for some months by Mr. Allis, 

 of York, after refusing food for the first three or four days. 

 Another in the year 1837, in the middle of the month of 

 March, on the moors near Guisborough, in Cleveland. It was 

 a young bird. One was shot in Devonshire, on the Lynher 

 river, in the month of February, 1834. Polwhele has also 

 noticed this specimen. A young bird was killed in the parish 

 of Bellingham, in Northumberland, in the middle of Januarv, 

 1845. Two are recorded by Thomas Edmonston, Jun., Esq., 

 as having been killed in Shetland, where he also says that it 

 is only a straggler. The Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, speaks 

 of it as 'rare' in Kent. One was seen by the Revs. A. and H. 

 Matthews, on the 10th. of October, 1847, near Tetsworth, in 

 Oxfordshire, in the act of devouring a wood-pigeon. They 

 observed it again a few days afterwards near the same spot. 

 Another had been shot a few years previous near Henley-on- 

 Thames; both of these were in immature plumage. Another 

 was caught in a trap some years ago near Brigg, in Lincoln- 

 shire, on a rabbit warren named Manton Common I believe; 

 one in Penbrokeshire, on the estate of Lord Cawdor; and another 

 on Bungay Common, in the county of Suffolk; one was shot 

 in the county of Northumberland; one seen by Mr. Bullock, 

 in Stronsa, one of the Orkney Islands; one near Aberdeen, 

 and one killed in Sutherlandshire, in the winter of 1835. In 

 the same year above mentioned, 1847, one was seen by W. 

 M. E. Milner, Esq., M.P., near Thurso, in Caithnesshire. 



In Ireland, but three specimens have occurred, (described 

 as being of the other supposed species,) one on the wing over 



