[COVER] 
Property of the Estate of 
A. Graham Brown 
[colour illustration] 
J. Wolf& H.C. Rickter, del et lith 
GREENLAND FALCON-Falco r. candicans 
In falconry, the hawk of Kings, the noblest of birds of prey. In the heyday 
of hawking, several specimens were brought to England from the Arctic and 
entered to herons. Otherwise, the great snow hawk of Greenland is an irregular 
spring and winter visitor to these islands. Sometimes it alights in an exhausted 
condition on ships at sea. Occasionally the creature is reported by bird-watchers 
in the north, especially along wild rugged coast. But it only leaves the Arctic 
in abnormally hard weather conditions. —Eric Hosking. 
