A list of the diurnal birds of prey : with references and annotations; also a record of specimens preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum / by John Henry Gurney.

  • Gurney, John Henry, 1819-1890.
Date:
1884
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Credit: A list of the diurnal birds of prey : with references and annotations; also a record of specimens preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum / by John Henry Gurney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    localities, if such there be, where both races pccur and where hybridism may perhaps result from such propinquity. As I have already mentioned in my Notes, the Norwich Museum possesses three immature Falcons from Hudson's Bay, and these I believe to be referable to H. gyrfalco; but as they are not in adult dress, I do not feel absolutely certain of the cor- rectness of this identification: the question of the geogra- phical range of these Falcons is one which I think affords an interesting subject for further investigation, and which I trust will receive the attention that it merits.