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flig'lit is sedate, and capable of being- long- protracted ; 

 when tlie wings are very long and rather narrow, it is 

 unsteady and undulating, as in some owls and gulls ; 

 and when the body is very slender, and the wings ex- 

 tremely long, there is produced that unsteady, bound- 

 ing, and gliding flight, so remarkable in the terns. 



This species is very widely distributed, being found, 

 according to authors, in most parts of Europe, over the 

 whole of North America, in the southern division of 

 that continent, and in New Holland. The various 

 names given to it are Peregrine Falcon, Tartarian Fal- 

 con, Spotted Falcoi, Barbary Falcon, Haggard Falcon, 

 Red Indian Falcon, Wandering Falcon, Common Fal- 

 con, Grey Falcon, and Grey Hawk, by which latter 

 name it is commonly known by the country people. 



Falco peregrinus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 33. Old. 

 Falco communis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 30. Young. 

 Faucon Pelerin, Falco peregrinus. Temm. Mmi. d''Ornith. p. 2-2, 

 Falco peregrinus. Peregrine Falcon. Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 49. 

 Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrimis. Selby., Ilhist. vol. i, p. 39. 



