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Quickiock. The neighbourhood of this lake must 

 possess many attractions for the naturalist. I 

 obtained the nest of the snowy owl not far from 

 here. Buffon's skua, and other rare fell birds, 

 and some of the rarest fell butterflies and plants, 

 are brought from this district. It can be easily 

 reached from Quickiock in three days. 



The Lap name of this falcon is " rip spenning." 

 Spenning is the name for every bird of prey, 

 lunvks, owls, etc., and the word ripa is added on 

 account of the havoc which this jer-falcon commits 

 among the ptarmigan. 



I will now say a few words respecting this 

 northern jer-falcon. And, first, I will refer the 

 reader to Dr. Bree's " Birds of Europe not ob- 

 served in the British Isles," in which he will find 

 a life-like picture of this bird, be it the same as 

 the Iceland falcon, or a distinct species. I have 

 not had the luck to examine many specimens of 

 this falcon, but all I have seen have been as dark 

 in plumage as Dr. Bree's figure. They all ap- 

 peared to be smaller than the Iceland falcon ; the 

 colour different from the young Iceland falcons 

 which I have seen, and more resembling the pere- 

 grine falcon ; and although I am hardly competent 

 to give an opinion, in my mind it is clearly a dis- 

 tinct species, entirely confined to the Scandinavian 

 fell (but not only to Lapland, for it is met with as 



