. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . three to six eggs, generally speckledor spotted with red or brown. The young are covered withthick white down. The difference in size between the maleand the female is very remarkable in this genus ; the sexes aresometimes similar in colour, and sometimes different, in whichcase the young resemble the female. The Falcons, on accountof their doc
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . three to six eggs, generally speckledor spotted with red or brown. The young are covered withthick white down. The difference in size between the maleand the female is very remarkable in this genus ; the sexes aresometimes similar in colour, and sometimes different, in whichcase the young resemble the female. The Falcons, on accountof their docility, and their superiority of flight and mode ofcapturing their prey, were considered by falconers as noble,while the other hawks and the eagles, being less easily inducedto relinquish their natural habits, were termed for the most part very destructive to game, they aromuch persecuted with us; but in this respect they differ littlefrom their brethren, every hawk being considered by the game-keeper as a malefactor. Six species occur in Britain: the Gyr Falcon, the PeregrineFalcon, the Hobby, the Merlin, the Red-footed Falcon, andthe Kestrel. 284 FALCO GYRFALCO. THE GYR FALCON. JER FALCON. JERKIN. ICELAND FALCON. GREENLAND Falco rusticolus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 125. Adult. Falco Gyrfalco. Linn, Syst. Nat. I. 130. Adult. Falco islandicus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I, 32. Adult. Falco Gyrfalco. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 32, Adult. Falco sacer, B. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 34. Adult. Jer Falcon. Mont. Orn. Diet. Faucon Gerfaut. Falco islandicus. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 17 ; III. 9. Jer-Falcon. Falco islandicus. Selb. lUustr. I. 36. Falco Islandicus. Jer-Falcon. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 81. Adult of both sexes white, having the upper parts marked withsemilunar or sagittiform dark-grey spots ; the bill light blue, thecere and feet pale-yellow. Young brownish-grey above, spottedwith yelloivish or reddish-white, the tail with numerous light bars,tchich on the middle feathers are generally oppo
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