128 LORD LILFORD ON BIRDS IN THE LILFORD AVIARIES. 
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NOTES ON BIRDS IN THE LILFORD AVIARIES. 
By The Right Honourable Lord Lilford. 
Read 27th May, 1890. 
I gladly comply Avith the request of my friend Mr. J. H. Gurney 
for a continuation of the notes on the former and present denizens 
of my Aviaries. 
I Avisli it to be understood that as I have not Ansited the native 
haunts of any of the northern Falcons, I only Avrite of them from 
my acquaintance Avith them in captivity, or on the authority 
of others. 
Of that beautiful bird, the Greenland Falcon, Falco candicans, 
I have at various times possessed five or six, obtained through 
dealers in London and Liverpool ; these were, Avith one exception, 
females in the plumage of the second or third year. The only 
Tiercel of this species that ever came to my hands alive Avas, I 
think, an older bird Avhen he arrived at Lilford than any of the 
females, and Avas the only one that ever reached me Avith Aving- 
and tail-feathers in sufficiently good order to alloAV of his being 
put into training at once ; in common Avith all the other Green- 
landers of my acquaintance, this bird Avas most docile and 
tractable, and turned out a magnificent flyer and stooper ; but 
he would never “bind to” the many Rooks that he generally 
“put in” at the first stoop ; Avith anything like a chance he Avas 
above his quarry in a very few minutes, but never made a short 
stoop ; mounting to a very high pitch he camo down like a dart, 
•but apparently never even attempted to clutch his birds, several 
