72' PALCOIV. 



brown, banded white and brown on the hiner web; tail banded 

 brown and whitish, the latter marked with numerous brown specks ; 

 tip of the tail white ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



A.— Falco islandicus, Lid. Orii. i. 32' Gm. Lin. i. 275. 101. B. Bris. i. 370. t. 30. 



Id. 8vo. 108. Brun, No. 8. Muller, 73. Wifl. p. 44. t. 8. Fr. Groenl. No. 35. 



Borowsk. Nat.u. p. 72. 6. Lin. Trans, xi'i. p. 528. 

 Falco candicans, Gm. Lin. i. 275. 



Accipiter muscoviticus ex nigro varius, Gerin, Orn i. t. 30. 

 Gerfault, B;//. i. 241. Pl.enl.UQ. 

 Weisser Falke, Natiirf. viii. s. 50. 



Iceland Falcon, Gen. Si/n. i. 71. Var. A. B. Id. Sup. ii, p, 27. 

 White Jerfalcon, Gen. Si/n. i . p. 83. 84. Id. Sup. p. 21. Br. Zool. i. No. 47. 1. 19. Id. 



Ed. 1812. i. p. 217. pi. 19. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 221. F. Lewin's Birds, 1. 16. Bewick. 



i. p. 29. 



This bird varies so exceedingly from the original colours, as to 

 have given sanction for authors to rank individuals as specific 

 differences, and those who are most in the neighbourhood of its haunts 

 find that, independent of the variations incident to all of the genus, 

 it loses its brown colour, more or less, in proportion to its age, or 

 coldness of climate, and, in some old birds, nearly approaches to 

 white. 



The Jerfalcon of Hudson's Bay is there called Pau-pune-nay-sue, 

 and is larger than the European species ; is said to weigh 45 oz. troy ; 

 is 23 inches long, and 50 inches broad ; bill and cere livid ; eyes 

 dark blue ; crown, and hind part of the neck white, streaked with 

 black — the rest of the upper parts the same, with triangular spots of 

 black ; the feathers tipped and margined with white ; greater wing 

 coverts, secondaries, and quills, barred with black— the ends of the 

 latter black; tail white, barred wdth black, but except the two 

 middle feathers, only on the outer webs ; breast white, with longi- 

 tudinal oval white spots, the size of a pea ; thighs and vent white ; 

 legs short, of a livid flesh colour, covered half way with feathers. I 

 received this account from my friend the late Mr. Hutchins, who was 



