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my experience is small, and my opinion carries but 

 little weight. 



KjaDrholling, the Danish, naturalist — of whom I 

 have also a great opinion — distinctly says that this 

 Norwegian jer-falcon, which he calls Fal. gyr-falco 

 (Schlegel) — " den Norske jagt falk" (F. lanarius, 

 L.), is distinct from both the Iceland and Green- 

 land forms (which, I fancy, he is inclined to 

 consider as two distinct species). In his descrip- 

 tion, he says of this Norwegian bird : — " It never 

 becomes white. From the young Iceland and 

 Greenland falcon it differs in its smaller size, in 

 the same sex, by the dark spot on the cheek (as in 

 the peregrine), by its yellow-green legs, which 

 appear to be peculiar to this bird at all ages ; and 

 further, in that the spots on the under part of thy 

 body and sides have the form of 'transverse bands/ 3 ' 



The peregrine falcon (F. peregrinus, L. ; "pele- 

 grim falk," Sw.) was far from common on these 

 fells. I rarely saw a specimen, and never obtained 

 a nest, although they certainly breed here. This 

 is a difficult egg to obtain, well authenticated. 



I never met with the hobby (F. subbuteo, L.) 

 up here, nor do I believe it comes up so far north, 

 although Lowenhjelm includes it in his list of birds 

 that breed in Lulea-Lapland. 



The merlin (F. lithofalco, Gm. ; " dverg falk," 

 Sw., " tsitsasch falle," Lap.) was the common hawk 



