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many others, thus mutely bears witness of its former 

 tenants. Dr. Whitaker (" Hist, of Whalley," ed. 1818, 

 p. 345) mentions this, and as his family seat of Holme is 

 close by, he no doubt wrote from personal experience. 

 Speaking of Cliviger, he says, " The almost inaccessible 

 rocks above resound with wild and various yells of 

 Hawks, which inhabit these secure retreats, to the de- 

 struction of vast quantities of game, whose bones form 

 little charnel-houses about their nests. Among these 

 one pair, of far superior size and strength, popularly 

 called Eock Eagles, but really the Peregrine Falcon, 

 now become extremely scarce, have annually bred from 

 time immemorial." I have examined a bird which was 

 shot here in 1820 by the late Vicar of A\^ialley, the Rev. 

 R. N. Whitaker, and Mr. W. Naylor tells me that some 

 eggs, forming part of a very old collection, which passed 

 some time ago into the possession of Colonel H. W. 

 Feilden, and which I have seen, were also from this 

 crag. The Peregrine has been shot as a straggler at all 

 times of the year, but oftenest on migration in sjDring, 

 in various parts of the county, and on the wild hills of 

 the Forest of Rowland it is not at all an uncommon 

 visitor at that season. 



HORRY. 



Falco subbuteo, Linnneus. 



Specimens of the Hobby have been procured in Lan- 

 cashire both in winter [Mr. Howard has examined an 

 adult male, in the collection of Mr. Di-ummond of Rlack- 

 pool, shot by Lady Clifton's head gamekeeper late in 

 November or early in December 1885 : a very mild 

 autumn. — Ed.] and summer, but it only occurs very 



