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THE NORTH AMERICAN PEREGRINE {Falco 

 peregrimts anatum). 



A New British Bird. 



In Lincolnshire. 



On September 28th, 1910, a large falcon Avas netted by 

 one of the men engaged in catching plovers at Humber- 

 stone on the Lincolnshire coast. It resembled a very 

 large and dark-coloured Peregrine, and measured twenty 

 inches in length, the wing being fourteen inches. I sent 

 the skin to Dr. E. Hartert, who pronounced it to be an 

 example of the American form of the Peregrine (Falco 

 peregrinns anatiim), which does not appear to have been 

 previously recorded from any part of Europe. 



This form is given in the A.O.TJ. Checklist as 

 breeding locally (except in the north-west coast region 

 where Peale's Peregrine, Falco p. pealei, is found) from 

 Norton Sound, Alaska, northern Mackenzie, Boothia 

 Peninsula, and western - central Greenland south to 

 central Lower California, Arizona, south-western Texas, 

 Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Con- 

 necticut ; winters from southern British Columbia, 

 Colorado, and New Jersey to the West Indies and Panama,, 

 and occurs in southern South America. 



How this individual reached the English coast it is 

 impossible to say, but being a bird of great powers of 

 flight, its visit is perhaps no more wonderful than 

 that of the many waders which reach us from the same 

 continent. G. H. Caton Haigh. 



In Leicestershire. 



At the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, 

 held on June 14th, 1911, Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited a very 

 dark Peregrine which had been shot by Mr. W. Whitaker 

 at Newbold Verdon, near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire,, 

 on October 31st, 1891. This bird had been examined by 



