96 NEWTON ON BIRDS IN GREENLAND. 



found generally or throughout Greenland the words " in suitable 

 " localities" must be understood to follow, even though not 

 inserted. 



1. Haliaetus albicilla. White-tailed Easle. *'Nektoralik," 



<' Tertersoak." 

 Inhabits generally and breeds in the whole of Danish Green- 

 land, including the eastern coast. Its northern range not as yet 

 determined. Being the only Eagle found in the country, there 

 seems no need to give here its diagnostic characters. 

 (/.) Pandion haliaetus. Osprey. 



A single specimen obtained (25 Sept.) at Godhavn, by 

 Mr. E. Whymper, and sent to the Museum of Copenhagen. 

 Must be regarded as a straggler (most likely from America), 

 since it is not found in Iceland, and has only once been known 

 to occur in the Faeroes (1848). 



2. Palco candicans. Greenland Falcon. " Kirksoviarsuk- 



kakortuinak." 

 The white form of Great Northern Falcon. In summer more 

 common in the Northern Inspectorate than in the Southern, but 

 occurring, according to Dr. Finsch, also on the Eastern Coast. 

 The limits of its breeding-range in either direction have not been 

 determined. 



3. Falco islandus. Iceland Falcon. " Kirksoviarsuk-kernek- 



tok." 

 The darker form of Great Northern Falcon, by some held to 

 be distinct both from F. candicans and F, gyrfalco. The northern 

 limits of its breeding-range have not yet been determined. A 

 young male Falcon, killed 24th September 1872, on the Fiskenaes, 

 referred by Di*. Finsch to F, gyrfalco, probably belonged to this 

 form. 



4. Falco peregrinus. Peregrine Falcon. " Kirksoviarsuk- 



millekulartok." 

 Said to breed generally throughout Greenland, certainly up to 

 lat. 69° N., and in many of the lands to the westward of Baffin's 

 Sea. Examples obtained by Dr. Walker, of the * Fox,' R.Y.S., 

 at Port Kennedy (lat. 72° N.), are specifically indistinguishable 

 from European specimens. 



(2.) Falco cBsalon. Merlin. 



A specimen caught at sea (lat. 57° 41' N., long. 35° 23' W.) 

 in May 1867, by Mr. E. Whymper, and by him presented to 

 the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, seems to have reached the 

 most western limit of the species known. A common species 

 in Iceland ; in North America replaced by the nearly allied 

 F. coluniharius, 



(5.) Tinnunculus alaudarius. Kestrel. 



One said to have flown on-board ship off Cape Farewell, 

 on Parry's first return voyage^ and killed, (Sabine, SuppL 

 App. p. ccx.) 



