Mr. Eyton on the Fauna of Shropshire. 285 



apicem mucronatis pallidis carina viridi trinervi, involuero diphyllo altero 

 capitulum suba3quante, foliis subulatis brevibus culmoque pubescentibus, 

 vaginis ore barbatis, caryopsi obovato-trigona laeviuscula. Isolepidi bar- 

 bates similis, difFerre videtur pubescentia et foliis crassioribus, cet. — Madras, 

 Mr. Griffith. 



XXXII. — An Attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire 

 and North Wales. By T. C. Eyton, Esq. 



[Continued from Mag. of Zool. and Bot., vol. ii. p. 542.] 



No. II. Aves. 



Falco peregrinus, Ray. (Peregrine Falcon.) Not an uncommon 

 bird on the Welsh coast, rearing its young on shelves of rock over- 

 hanging the sea. I have never observed nests nearer to one another 

 than two miles. Two or three specimens have occurred in Shrop- 

 shire. A fine old bird was this winter (1837) procured by John 

 Rocke, Esq., near Clungurford. I have several times succeeded in 

 training the young bird (the lanner of Fleming and Pennant,) for 

 hawking pigeons and partridges, and found the process much easier 

 than I could have supposed from the accounts of it given in the older 

 books on the subject ; indeed, excepting the treatise by Sir John 

 Sebright, there is not more humbug contained in any description of 

 books than in those on hawking. 



The trachea of the Peregrine Falcon is furnished with two pairs 

 of muscles of voice, similar to those described by Mr. Yarrell in the 

 Linnsean Transactions to exist in the Indian crowned pigeon. 



Falco Subbuteo, Ray. (Hobby.) Several specimens have occurred 

 near the Stretton hills in Shropshire : all that I have seen have been 

 in the young state of plumage. 



Falco Msalon, Ray. (Merlin.) Rare in Shropshire, but breeds 

 not uncommonly in the neighbourhood of Cader Icjris, where the 

 young are generally supposed to be of a different species, and is 

 called the stone Falcon. 



Falco Tinnunculus, Ray. (Kestrel.) Common. The kestrel is 

 generally supposed to be the most common of the British hawks ; 

 but in the neighbourhood of Eyton, and I believe that most of the 

 gamekeepers in Shropshire will say the same, the sparrow-hawk is 

 decidedly the most common. On the Welsh coast, on the contrary, 

 I have obtained in general about four specimens of the kestrel for 

 one of the sparrow-hawk. 



Falco (Menofalco, Cuv.) Islandicus, Linn. (Gyr Falcon.) One of 



