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(rouge) ;" he goes on to relate that, though small of body, 

 they are of such courage that one has been known to seize a 

 Swan, and not quit her hold till the said Swau dived under 

 water. I will only add that I look upon this little Falcon as 

 closely allied to, or a subspecies of, Falco babylonicus, whilst 

 F. punicus stands in exactly the same relationship to F. pere- 

 grinus. The subject of the figure was by far the most savage 

 of the many young Falcons that I have ever had to do with ; 

 and although her brother became perfectly tame in two or 

 three days, she would always attack my hand in preference 

 to the food that I offered her, and for many months showed 

 an amount of ill-temper very unusual in the " generous " 

 Falcons : her temper has improved with age, and she will 

 now fiy fairly well to the lure, but she will not mount high 

 enough to enable her to take Partridges. This is pro- 

 bably the result of a severe attack of the terrible malady 

 known to falconers as " frounce," from which she, and her 

 brother in a less degree, suffered on their passage from Nice 

 to Southampton in the yacht. The male bird was flown " at 

 hack," and trained by the falconer of the Old Hawking Club, 

 who reported him to me as exceedingly docile and very fast 

 on wing, but he was unfortunately killed by a Peregrine 

 before he had moulted. I have purchased a great many of 

 this race of Falcon in Leadenhall Market, all of which were 

 said to have been shipped from Mogador ; but although I 

 have freqnently met with the typical Peregrine during the 

 winter months in the Mediterranean, the present is the only 

 Peregrinoid form that I have personally found breeding 

 there, and, from my experience, I am inclined to look upon 

 it as the most strictly marine (if I may be allowed the 

 expression) of any Falcon, except perhaps F. eleonora. I 

 have found this race of Peregrine in Iviza and Menorca, and 

 I obtained a fine adult male in the province of Santander in 

 May 1876, this last being the only specimen that I ever 

 met with away from the shores of the Mediterranean. Of 

 many Peregrines obtained by us during the winter and early 

 months of spring on the Guadalquivir all were of the typical 

 European form, and of rather unusually large dimensions. 

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