. ^ss II. PEREGRINE FALCON. , i79' 



was fhot in Hampfljire^ jufl: as it had (Iruck 

 n a Rook and was tearing it to pieces. The 

 ole under fide of the body was of a deep dirty 

 ^jlow, but the black bars were the fame as in 

 that above defcribed. The weight of this was two 

 pounds eight ounces ; the breadth thirty eight 

 inches. 

 . This fpecies breeds on the rocks of Llandidno in 

 Caernarvon/hire. That promontory has been long 

 famed for producing a generous kind, as appears 

 by a letter extant in Gloddaeth library, from the 

 lord treafurer Burleigh to an anceftor of Sir Roger 

 Moftyn, in which his lordlhip thanks him for a pre- 

 fent of a line caft of hawks taken on thole rocks, 

 /hich belong to the family. They are alfo ver/ 

 ommon in the north of Scotland-, and are fome- 

 umes trained for falconry by fome few gentlemen 

 who ilill take delight in this amufement in that part 

 '■ of Great Britain. Their flight is amazingly rapid : 

 one that was reclamed by a gentleman in the fhire 

 . of Angtis^ a county on the eaft fide of Scotland^ e- 

 * loped from his mafter with two heavy bells to 

 each foot, on the twenty-fourth of September lyyzy 

 and was killed in the morning of the twenty-fixth, 

 pear Moftp^ Flintfdre. 



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