. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . JER-FALCON. JEB-FALCON. 63 The h^^perborean regions are the native place of this Falcon:thence indeed its specific name. It occurs in the Shetlandand Orkney Islands, but is considered by Mr. Low, in hisFauna Orcadensis, to be only a visitant even there, and nota permanent resident. Iceland, Greenland, and the parallelparts of North America, and Northern Asia, are its properhaunts, as also Norway, Russia, and Lapland, and it is occa-sionally met \vith in the northern parts of Germany, and thesouth of Sweden. In Asia too, in Siberia. The
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . JER-FALCON. JEB-FALCON. 63 The h^^perborean regions are the native place of this Falcon:thence indeed its specific name. It occurs in the Shetlandand Orkney Islands, but is considered by Mr. Low, in hisFauna Orcadensis, to be only a visitant even there, and nota permanent resident. Iceland, Greenland, and the parallelparts of North America, and Northern Asia, are its properhaunts, as also Norway, Russia, and Lapland, and it is occa-sionally met \vith in the northern parts of Germany, and thesouth of Sweden. In Asia too, in Siberia. The Jer has been but rarely killed in this country: a fewin Scotland, and still fewer in England, Wales, and Ireland. In Yorkshire, one is said to have been obtained in the 3ear184:7, in the month of March: another -was shot in the year1837, March 13th., in the parish of Sutton-upon-Derwent,near York, and was kept alive for some months by Mr. Allis,of York, after refusing food for the first three or four in the year 1837, in the middle of the m
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