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THE I'EALE FALCON. 



a lit'a\ ilv i-(iliir(.(l hinl. wIiunc pluniaj^c is ihc result nf racial centuries spent in 

 a regii)n of heavx' rainfall, it iiui;lit, llierefdre, to occur along the cliffs and 

 islands of our western coast, where the annual rainfall ranges upward of a 

 lunidred inches, t'oijper's s])ecintens taken at Shoahvater Bay in 1854, arc 

 rated as pcaici ; and a female taken Ijy myself on Carroll Islet, June 22. 1907, 



suijports the assumption. 



'I'hese grim 



deaths rear 

 their young upon the cliff's 

 of the Olympiades, choosing 

 for the purpose some inilined 

 cranny or ledge mi(hva\' of 

 an inaccessihle preci])ice. 

 The\- show great attachment 

 for a given locality, which 

 really, because of their ])res- 

 ence, takes on something ot 

 the distinction of a baronial 

 estate: and they are valiant 

 in defense of their young. 

 The site shown in I lie cut 

 has been occuiiied for \-ears 

 b\- a ]iair of Kahliikihulo's, 

 as the Quillayutes call these 

 Falcons, and in 1907 the 

 \-oung were haiclieil ,-ihonl 

 June First. 



C)ii Carroll Islet we tound 

 a single full-grown chick, 

 ]irobably the runt of a 

 scattered brood, and judged 

 that he must ha\'e broken 

 shell by the first of Mav. 

 He was in charge of two 

 verv solicitous parents, who guarded his e\'er_\- movement and ]>iiblished 

 screaming bulletins of our progres.s — an attention which, by the way, began to 

 pall u])on our senses l)\- the end of the fourth day. 



The clauKjr was renewed as often as we appeared near Master Peale's 

 favorite perch, an old dead spruce tree; and the old birds, when they could no 

 longer control their indignation afoot, relieved their pent-up feelings by giddy 

 swoops and sallies, or else took a turn around the .sea-wall, screaming 

 frightfully. 



Gi\-en s])eed, courage, and go(jd appetites, all of which these birds 



Taken on Carroll Islet. 



Pholo by the Antlior. 



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