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Juv. pileo, capitis lateribus et nucha, albis nigro-fusco striatis : corpore supra saturate fusco, plumis sordide 

 albido et fulvido marginatis : uropygio pallidiore et vix cinereo tincto : remigibus ut in adulto sed 

 brunnescentioribus et apicibus albicante cervino marginatis : cauda fusca albo apicata et albicante 

 cervino fasciata, his fasciis brunneo punctatis : corpore subtus albo, gutture anguste fusco striata., et 

 corpore imo subtus striis latioribus saturate fuscis notato : cera et pedibus plumbeis : iride nigro-fusca. 



Adult Female (East Finmark) . Upper parts very dark slaty grey, barred with light blue-grey, or almost 

 white in some parts ; crown darker, unmarked with lighter colour, but the feathers have blackish shaft- 

 stripes ; an indistinct buffy white stripe passes from behind the eye to the nape, the latter being marked 

 with buffy white ; hind neck rather more marked with white than the rest of the upper parts ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts clear blue-grey, barred with slaty blue ; quills dark brown, on the outer web 

 mottled with grey, the inner web above the emargination being dark brown on the inner part near the 

 shaft, the rest being greyish white barred with dark brown; tail brown with a slaty tinge, closely 

 barred with blue-grey or mouse-grey, these light bars being freckled with darker grey ; extreme tip of 

 tail white ; sides of the face white, marked with black, the space below the eye, the upper line of the 

 ear-coverts, and a broad moustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible dark slaty brown; 

 underparts white, the upper throat and chin nearly unmarked, the rest of the underparts sparingly 

 marked with drop-shaped long stripes ; flanks, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts barred with 

 dark slaty brown ; bill blue, becoming black towards the tip ; cere, edge of the eyelid, and feet yellow ; 

 iris nearly black; claws black. Total length about 2i inches, culmen 1*5, wing 15 - 0, tail 1O0, 

 tarsus 3'0. 



Adult Male. Similar to the female, but much less. I do not possess an example so adult as the female 

 above described; and the oldest specimen I have, though it has attained the full dress on the back, 

 rump, tail, and underparts, has the head nearly as light as in the young bird, and the wings are more 

 tinged with brown than in the fully adult bird. This specimen measures — -total length about 21 inches, 

 culmen 1*35, wing 13"6, tail 8 - 5, tarsus 2"4. 



Young Male (Wadso, East Finmark) . Crown, sides of the head, and nape buffy white, striped with dark 

 brown, the forehead being white, with very narrow dark pencillings; upper parts dark brown, the 

 feathers margined with buffy white, and here and there slightly marked with buff or fulvous buff; 

 rump rather lighter brown, similarly marked, and with a faint blue-grey tinge ; quills as in the adult, 

 but browner and with the terminal portion margined with buffy white ; tail dark brown, tipped with 

 white, and barred with buffy white, these bars being slightly freckled with brown; underparts white, on 

 the throat narrowly, and on the rest of the underparts tolerably closely and broadly striped with dark 

 brown ; the dark patch on the side of the head and the moustachial stripe are indicated by being more 

 darkly marked, the intervening parts of the side of the head being whiter; bdl horn-blue, darker 

 towards the tip ; cere bluish ; feet lead-blue, claws black. 



The range of this, the so-called " Norwegian " or true Jer Falcon, in contradistinction to the 

 Iceland and Greenland species, is somewhat extensive, as it inhabits Northern Scandinavia and 

 North Russia, and thence is found right across Northern Asia into Arctic America. In Europe, 

 however, its range is comparatively restricted ; for it is only met with as a resident in the 

 northern portion of Scandinavia and Russia, stragglers being occasionally seen in more 

 southern latitudes during the winter. It has never been observed in England ; and I find no 

 record of its occurrence in France, beyond the statement made by Messrs. Degland and Gerbe 

 to the effect that young examples only occur accidentally in that country. It is stated to occur 



