enable him to identify lier, even if she were jet-black. 

 An old gamekeeper, native of Rannoch, Perthshire, and 

 formerly in my employment in Inverness-shire, assured 

 me that the " White Falcons " very frequently visited 

 Loch Rannoch and Loch Tnmmel during the winter 

 months, and that he had at various times shot and 

 trapped four or five, and seen many others ; one of 

 these victims I discovered in the shop of Mr. Paton, the 

 well-known gunmaker at Perth ; it was a young male, 

 killed near Foss, on Loch Tummel, in the early spring 

 of 1862. I had the pleasure of presenting this speci- 

 men to the late E. Clough Newcome, of Feltwell, 

 Brandon, Norfolk, an old and valued friend, and in 

 his day without a rival in this country as a practical 

 falconer. 



John Campbell, the gamekeeper to whom I have 

 above alluded, told me that these " White Falcons ". 

 seemed to prefer Rooks to any other quarry, but that 

 they made the wild fowl very " uneasy " ; he never saw 

 one in pursuit of a Red Grouse, but once saw one make 

 an ineffectual stoop at an old Blackcock ; on the whole, 

 from his pi'ofessional point of view, he did not look 

 upon the Greenlander as such " a bad vermin " ! as the 

 " Hunting Hawk," /. e. Peregrine. 



My experience of this bird in captivity is to the 

 effect that it is extremely docile, and a very fine and 

 powerful flyer and stooper, but what we call in falconry 

 a poor " footer," that is, it is not able, or more pro- 

 bably not disposed, to bind to and grasp its quarry 

 firmly ; it is also by no means hardy of constitution, 

 and is difficult to keep in good condition for field 



