80 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



of which I purchased and kept alive for a long time : 

 and afterwards, hearing that he had still another 

 left, I thought I would endeavour to get that also. 

 On my asking whether he kept it 

 confined in a cage or in a garden, he replied that it 

 was quite free, and flew about wherever it liked, but 

 would come to his call or whistle from any distance 

 within sight or hearing. On landing and walking 

 into the village, my companion began to call and 

 whistle, when suddenly, to my astonishment, I saw 

 the Falcon swoop down from the corner of a high 

 building at the end of a street, and alight on his 



shoulder I have often since regretted 



that I did not buy this docile bird" (Zool. 1877, p. 

 280) . From the precipitous character of its favourite 

 haunts, I have heard this Falcon called the " Cliff- 

 hawk " in Devon. Mr. H. NichoUsof Kingsbridge 

 informs me, that about twenty Peregrines have 

 passed through his hands during his experience, 

 extending over many years. Local specimens may 

 be seen in the Museums of Plymouth, Exeter, 

 Torquay ; others are preserved in private collections. 



ROBBY.—FaIco suUuteo, Linn. 



An occasional summer visitant. Devonshire lies 

 to the west of the Hobby's proper breeding range in 

 England, but the species is reported to have bred in 

 Lydford Woods, at Warleigh, and one or two other 

 localities. A pair of Hobbies undoubtedly nested in 

 Gidleigh Park near Chagford, in 1870 ; the facts 



