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" A species of Falcon was a few years 
since shot on Bungay Common, and being 
only slightly wounded in the pinion, it lived 
with me some years. It had escaped, I 
doubt not, from some falconer, as it was per- 
fectly tame, eating readily from the hand of 
the servant who attended him. I am of 
opinion it was Latham's variety B. of the 
Iceland Falcon, which he calls the Spotted 
Iceland Falcon. See 1st part of 1st volume 
of Latham's General Synopsis of Birds, 
page 71." 
FALCO GRISEUS. 
GREY FALCON. 
Mr. Pennant, in the British Zoology, gave 
a description of a bird (under the above 
name), shot near Halifax, in Yorkshire, in 
the year 1762. It now appears, from the 
opinion of later naturalists, to be the Tercel^ 
or male of the Jerfalcon, in its first plu- 
mage. 
As it appears to be the only specimen shot 
in this country, we give Mr. Pennant's de* 
scription : 
