BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. O 



by the crew of the Norwegian barque ' Lina/ in the 

 middle of the North Sea. 



4. FALCO CANDICANS, | j p Gmelin f mcm 

 FALCO ISLANDUS, J 



Was shot at Flamborough several years since by 

 that well-known bird-slayer, Thomas Leng, fisherman, 

 Leng was shooting rock-pigeons at the time from 

 the Speeton rocks, and says that at some distance the 

 bird looked quite white, but on a nearer view he dis- 

 tinctly saw that its plumage was speckled with black, 

 although it was altogether a very light bird. It fell 

 to the bottom of the cliff; and he sent his son down, 

 also descending hinself to recover it, but was un- 

 successful, as the rising tide had carried it out. 

 One, a Greenland Falcon, recorded in Mr. Yarrell's 

 'British Birds/ p. 42, 4th edition, was killed in Robin 

 Hood's Bay in November 1854*; there is no recent 

 occurrence of either race of these noble birds in 

 Holderness or North Lincolnshire. 



5. FALCO PEREGRINUS, J. F. Gmelin. Peregrine 



Falcon. 



Provincial. Duck-Hawk, Hunting Hawk. 

 Specimens both of the old and immature birds are 

 met with nearly every autumn and winter ; and it has 



* There is a splendid example of the White or Greenland 

 form in the Scarborough Museum, killed near that place. 



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