G3 PEREGRINE. 
met with inland: sometimes near Petworth, Burton Park, 
Lewes, Chichester, Arundel, Seaford, Pevensey, Shoreham, and 
Rye; but seldom on the Weald. ‘Two curious mstances of 
the obtaining of the Peregrine are mentioned by A. E. Knox, 
Esq.: one was caught in a net, with which a person was 
catching sparrows from under the eaves of a barn, and the 
other was shot by a farmer, after it had dashed at a stuffed 
wood-pigeon, which he had fixed up in a field as a lure to 
decoy others within shot. I am informed by my friend, the 
Rev. R. P. Alington, that it is not uncommon in the spring 
in the neighbourhood of Swinhope, in Lincolnshire. ‘One was 
shot near there a few years since by Thomas Harneis, Esq., 
of Hawerby House. Others have been met with in Worces- 
tershire—one in 1849; some on Dartmoor, in Devonshire; and 
one was caught in a trap at Mutley, in 1831. 
In Yorkshire, the Peregrine has had eyries at Kilnsea Cragg 
and Arncliffe, in Wharfedale, in Craven, as also near Pickering, 
and on Black Hambleton, the cliffs of the Isle of Wight, 
and of Devonshire and Cornwall; and it still breeds on New- 
haven cliff, and the high cliffs which form Beechy Head, in 
Sussex. A pair have been in the habit of building there for 
the last quarter of a century: three young birds were taken 
from the nest in 1849, and came into the possession of Mr. 
Thomas Thorncroft, of Brighton, who in his letter to me, 
describes them as very docile and noble: such they are indeed 
described to be by all who have kept them. The Bass rock 
in the Frith of Forth has been another of its breeding-places; 
as also the neighbourhood of Holyhead; the Great Orme’s 
Head; the rock of Llandedno, in Caernarvonshire; the precipice 
of Dumbarton Castle; the Isle of May; the Vale of Moffatt, 
in Dumfriesshire; many of the precipitous rocks of Suther- 
landshire; the neighbourhood of Banff and St. Abb’s Head; 
the borders of Selkirkshire, Loch Cor, Loch Ruthven, Knock- 
dolian, in Ayrshire; Ailsa, Ballantrae, and Portpatrick, in 
Scotland. 
In Ireland it has had, according to William Thompson, 
Esq., of Belfast, many eyries in the cliffs of the four maritime 
counties of Ulster, as well as some in other parts: in Antrim 
no fewer than nine, three of them being inland, Glenariff, 
Salah Braes, and the Cave-hill. So also at Me. Art’s fort, 
three miles from Belfast, Fairhead and Dunluce Castle, the 
Horn in Donegal and Knockagh hill, near Carrickfergus, the 
Gobbins at the northern entrance to Belfast Bay, where two 
