PEKNIS. HIEROFALCO. 101 



Pernis apivorus, Hewitson, p. 40; Gray, p. 8 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. 



p. 91 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 98 ; Newton, i. p. 121 ; Gould, i. 



pi. 8; Harting, p. 6; Dresser, vi. p. 3. 

 Honey Buzzard, Yarr. i. p. 85. 



Apivortis = Bee-eater, from apis + voro. 



A Palaearctic species, occurring also in Africa down to the 

 Cape. A rare summer visitor, occasionally known to treed, in 

 England and Scotland ; still more rare in Ireland. 



Genus HIEROFALCO, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 312 



(1817). 



Hierofalco, a hybrid word from lepos = sacred, and falco = a Hawk. Of. 

 the mediseval falco sacer, our " Saker." 



Hierofalco gyrfalco. Gtr Falcon. 



Falco Gyrfalco, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 130 (1766). 



Falco gyrfalco, Naum. xiii. p. 22; Gould, pi. 16; [Harting, 

 p. 84] ; Dresser, vi. p. 15. 



Qyrfaloo = the Falcon that soara in circles ; from gyrare = to wheel round, 

 and faloo. 



Inhabits Arctic Scandinavia, migrating southwards in 

 winter. One specimen was shot near Orford, in SuflFolk, in 

 1867 (Seebohm, Hist. B. B. i. p. 19). 



Hierofalco candicans. Greenland Falcon. 

 Falco candicans, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 275 (1788). 



Falco candicans, Naum. i. p. 269, xiii. p. 16 ; Newton, i. p. 36 ; 



Gould, i. pi. 13; Harting, p. 85 ; Dresser, vi. p. 21. 

 Falco gyrfalco, Macg. iii. p. 284 ; Gray, p. 10 ; Yarr. ed. 3, 



i. p. 31 (in part) ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 36 (in part). 

 Gyr-Falcon, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 26 (in part). 



Candicans = white, from candico = I am white. 



Resident in the northern districts of North-east America 

 and Greenland ; a scarce occasional visitant from the north 

 to the British Islands. 



