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FALCONID.E. 



BAPTOIiES. 



FALCONID/E. 



THE PEREGRINE FALCON. 



Falco peregritms, Peregrine Falcon, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 218. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 17. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 49. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 39. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 82. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiv. 

 Fauconpelerin, Temm. Man.d'Ornith. vol.i. p. 22. 



The great docility of the Peregrine Falcon, and the com- 

 parative ease Avith which the birds are procured, has rendered 



