8 CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Mr. Frederick Boyes records the occurrence of a fine male 

 shot at Cherry Burton, near Beverley, on the 22nd of November 

 1876 (Zoologist, 1877, p. 158). 



One was caught in a pole trap at Gransmoor, near 

 Bridlington, on the 30th of June 1877; the fact being 

 communicated to the Zoologist (1877, p. 389) by Mr. J. H. 

 Hutchinson. The individual presented in September of the 

 same year to the Zoological Society by Mr. W. H. S. Quintin, 

 and deposited in their gardens at Regent's Park, London, may 

 possibly be the same bird. 



Mr. William Lister of Glaisdale mentions it as having 

 occurred at Egton Bridge. 



FALCO CANDICANS J. F. Gmelin. 

 Greenland Falcon. 



A rare and accidental visitant. 



The confusion that formerly prevailed among ornithologists 

 with regard to the specific identification of the Northern Falcons 

 is now a thing of the past, and has resulted in the recognition of 

 three distinct species, one of which — the true Jer Falcon of the 

 Scandinavian Peninsula — has not yet been ascertained to have 

 occurred in the British Isles. 



Under the names of Gyr and Jer Falcon, I have records of 

 eight occurrences in this county : three of them (two certainly and 

 one probably) are referable to the species under consideration 

 and the remaining five to the Iceland Falcon ; and it is satisfactory 

 to know that the specific names of some of them, which would 

 otherwise have been open to grave doubt, have been determined 

 by the highest authorities. 



The first occurrence of this species of which we have any 

 record was in 1837, and was communicated to Neville Wood's 

 Naturalist (1837, p. 53 & 163) by Mr. Thomas Allis of York, 

 of whose accounts the following is an abstract : — A fine adult 

 specimen of the Jer Falcon was shot at Sutton-upon-Derwent, by 



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