THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. IV.] ASP Raid, 188.0, [No. 40. 
NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE BRITISH 
POLAR EXPEDITION, 1875-6. 
By Henry Cuicuester Hart, 
Naturalist on Board H.M.S. ‘ Discovery.’ 
GREENLAND Faucon, Falco candicans, Gm.—Upon the 16th 
July, 1875, I saw a bird of this species leaving a “loomery” in 
Svarte-vogel Bay, near Rittenbank, lat. 69° 42’, with a bird in its 
talons. Afterwards, on August 19th, 1875, I watched a pair for 
some time circling around their eyrie amongst lofty cliffs near 
Cape Hayes, lat. 79° 44’. They alighted several times, but 
scarcely descended below their inaccessible breeding-place, about 
a thousand feet above the ice-foot where I stood. Their wide 
flights and spreading gyrations were quite like those of the 
Peregrine Falcon under similar circumstances, but, unlike that 
bird, they maintained silence. At the end of May, 1876, a bird 
was seen to alight on a snowy bluff, about three hundred yards 
from the ship, in Discovery Bay, lat. 81° 42’. It was watched 
through a glass for some minutes, but flew away when a gunner 
attempted to approach it. From the description given to me 
afterwards I concluded it could only be a Falcon. On the home- 
ward voyage Falcons were several times seen; on August 21st, 
1876, at the breeding-place of last season, and several times 
about the ship in September; upon the 17th one perched on the 
fore-royal truck when near Proven, lat. 72° 20’. The last Falcon 
I saw was at Godhayn on September 25th, 1876. 
Snowy Own, Nyctea scandiaca, Linn.—We saw no Snowy Owls 
until reaching Discovery Bay; they were abundant there from 
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