6 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



gives no date or locality, includes the Gyr Falcon 

 in his list of Channel Island birds. As all three of 

 the large northern white Falcons were at one time 

 included under the name of Gyr Falcons, and, as 

 Professor Ansted gives no description of the bird 

 mentioned by him, it is impossible to say to which 

 species he alluded. We may faily conclude, how- 

 ever, that it was either the present species or the 

 Iceland Falcon, as it could hardly have been the 

 darker and less wandering species, the Norway 

 Falcon, the true Gyr Falcon of falconers, Falco 

 gyrfalco of Linnaeus, which does not wander so far 

 from its native home, and has never yet, as far as 

 is at present known, occurred in any part of the 

 British Islands, and certainly not so far south as 

 the Channel Islands. This latter, indeed, is an 

 extremely southern latitude for either the Greenland 

 or Iceland Falcon, the next being in Cornwall, 

 from which county both species have been recorded 

 by Mr. Eodd. Neither species, however, is recorded 

 as having occurred in any of the neighbouring 

 parts of France. 



4. ICELAND FALCON. Falco islandus, Gmelin. An 

 Iceland Falcon was killed on the little Island of 

 Herm on the llth of April, 1876, where it had 

 been seen about for some time, by the gamekeeper. 

 It had another similar bird in company with it, and 

 probably the pair were living very well upon the 



