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and female, and a young male in immature 
plumage. A fourth specimen, a female, was also 
shot in Holkham park.” A notice has been 
since read to the Linnsean Society, by Mr 
Foljambe,* of the capture of a male in Yorkshire, 
“and an immature specimen was shot in the 
county of Wicklow, in the summer of 1832, and 
forms part of the collection of T. W. Warren, 
Esq. of Dublin ;”f and these are all, we believe, 
that have hitherto been recorded.^ On those 
parts of the European continent, that lie adjacent 
to Britain, the Red-legged Falcon is also rare. 
It appears to be a bird delighting in a wild 
mountainous but wooded region ; France and 
Holland are therefore nearly as unsuited to its 
liking as Britain. In the first, it is accounted rare, 
and it has not been found at all in the latter ; in the 
Tyrol and Switzerland it begins to appear, ranges 
through Poland and Austria, and is common in 
Russia ; of its distribution, farther, we have no 
record. Though agreeing with the Falcons in 
general form, it must be reckoned as diverging 
towards the aberrant species ; there are some 
modifications in the form of the wings, and reti- 
culation of the tarsi, and its food seems to be 
* Magazine of Zool. &c. iv. p. 116. 
t See Proceedings of Zool. Society, 1835. 
t Gould’s Birds of Europe. Mr Yarrell mentions one 
or two additional instances in his Brit. Birds. 
