. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FALCONID^. 343. THE ICELAND FALCON. Falco islandus, J. F. Gmelin. In the Iceland Falcon the prevailing colour is either brown or grey, according as the bird is young or old, and in the adult the flanks are always more or less barred. The occurrences of this species in the British Islands appear, so far as evidence goes, to be less frequent than those of the Greenland Falcon, possibly because there is not the same necessity for migration; but identified specimens have been obtained in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Outer and Inner Hebrides, and in sever
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. FALCONID^. 343. THE ICELAND FALCON. Falco islandus, J. F. Gmelin. In the Iceland Falcon the prevailing colour is either brown or grey, according as the bird is young or old, and in the adult the flanks are always more or less barred. The occurrences of this species in the British Islands appear, so far as evidence goes, to be less frequent than those of the Greenland Falcon, possibly because there is not the same necessity for migration; but identified specimens have been obtained in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Outer and Inner Hebrides, and in several localities on the mainland of Scotland; also in Northumberland, Westmoreland, Yorkshire, and on Herm in the Channel Islands. In Ireland authentic examples have been captured in Donegal, Antrim, and near Belmullet and Westport in co. Mayo—the last in 1883. The typical form of this Falcon inhabits Iceland, where it breeds in precipitous cliffs above the numerous lakes—especially near. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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