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PEREGRINE. 
Falco peregrinus, LATHAM. FLEMING. 
Falco communis, LATHAM. SELBY. 
Faleo—To cut with a bill or hook. Peregrinus—A stranger or foreigner 
—a traveller from a distant country. 
Tue Peregrine-Falcon has always been highly prized both 
living and dead, in the former case for its value in falconry, 
on account of its courageous spirit and docility, combined 
with confidence and fearlessness, and in the latter for its 
handsome and fine appearance. It is a bird of first-rate powers 
of flight, and from its frequent exertion of those powers has 
derived its name. It has very often been seen crossing the 
Atlantie at a great distance from land. 
The Peregrine is widely distributed, being found throughout 
the whole of North America, and in parts of South America, 
even as far south as the Straits of Magellan, and northwards 
in Greenland; in Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope; in most 
countries of Europe, particularly in Russia, Denmark, Norway, 
Sweden, and Lapland; in Siberia and many parts of Asia; and 
also in New Holland. The rocky cliffs of this country have 
hitherto afforded it a comparative degree of protection, but 
‘protection’ seems exploded—explosion in fact sounding the 
knell of the aristocratic Peregrine. 
Strange to say these birds have been known to take up'a 
temporary residence on St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London, any- 
thing but ‘far from the busy hum of men,’ preying while 
there on the pigeons which make it their cote, and a Pere- 
grine has been seen to seize one in Leicester Square. 
In the county of York many of these birds have at different 
periods been shot, some at Nutwell and Flamborough. ‘Three 
specimens have been procured in the neighbourhood of Fal- 
mouth, of which W. P. Cocks, Esq. has obligingly sent me 
information. In Sussex, the Peregrine has been occasionally 
