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June 1782, and still preserved in the cabinet of his son in 1832, 

 as T. C. Heysham expressly records. In Cumberland some half- 

 a-dozen specimens have been obtained, chiefly in the north and 

 west of the country ; but, with one exception, in autumn only. 

 The exception was a female Honey Buzzard, which Greenwell 

 received in June 1857 from the neighbourhood of Alston. 



T. Armstrong records that a Honey Buzzard, shot near 

 Penrith in 1855, proved on dissection to have its stomach filled 

 with wasp grubs. Sam Watson informed me that a bird which 

 he received for preservation, from the neighbourhood of Wigton, 

 had been feeding in the same way. I have not been able to 

 trace the Honey Buzzard in the neighbourhood of Morecambe 

 Bay. 



GREENLAND FALCON. 



Falco candicans (Gmel.). 

 Mr. J. G. Goodchild has figured in the Transactions of the 

 Cumberland and Westmorland Association (No. viii) a fine Green- 

 land Falcon preserved at Edenhall. The MS. notes of the late 

 Sir Richard Musgrave observe that this bird was killed by a 

 blacksmith near Crosby Ravensworth in 1865. Mr. Hugh 

 Harrison records its history: 'In February [1865] a fine 

 specimen of the jerfalcon was shot in the act of devouring a 

 grouse, at Crosby Ravensworth, near Appleby, Westmoreland. 

 I made application for it and found it had already been placed 

 in the collection of Sir George Musgrave of Edenhall.' 1 Mr. 

 Raine well remembers the occurrence. A heavy fall of snow 

 upon the fells had probably driven the grouse down to the 

 ground on which it was killed. The late Baronet heard of the 

 bird from Mr. Hope, sen., to whom it had been taken to be 

 stuffed, and sent a keeper named Sawer to purchase it. It was 

 subsequently re-stuffed by Shaw of Shrewsbury. 



ICELAND FALCON. 



Falco islandus (Gmel. ). 

 Some few years ago an example of this Jerfalcon was dis- 

 covered in a farm-house in Westmorland by Mr. J. G. Goodchild, 

 1 Zoologist, 1866, p. 30. 



