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GENUS HIEROFALCO. 



GREENLAND FALCON. 



HiEROFALco CANDICANS (J. F, Gmeliii). 



Li the Proceedings of the Historic Society of Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire, session 1865-66, is pubHshed a note 

 by Mr. C. S. Gregson, who says that an old bird is in 

 his possession, which flew on board a vessel coming 

 into the port of Liverpool and was captured by one of 

 the crew. 



GENUS FALCO. 

 PEEEGEINE FALCON. 



F^UiCO PEREGRiNus, Tunstall. 



Like the Common Buzzard, the present species still 

 manages to carry on a precarious existence on some of 

 the Lake mountains, and, in spite of persecution, pro- 

 bably two broods are hatched there each year. This 

 number has not been exceeded for a long time, and the 

 case on the Lancashire side of the border is no doubt 

 identical with that on the Cumberland hills, where Dr. 

 C. A. Parker says the Peregrine neither increases nor 

 decreases. The only other locality as to which there is 

 evidence of its nesting is that of the gorge of Cliviger, 

 where is a rock still called Eagle Crag,* and which, like 



* The name has been said to have been given the crag from its 

 resemblance to an Eagle's beak, but this, I think, is fanciful. It 

 is also known as Bill Knipe, probably derived in part from Kiiijjc, 

 which is Norse for a projecting rock. 



