136 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
In the middle of October 1865, the late R. S. 
Eddleston observed two large white Falcons near 
Bowdon, which were sporting with a flock of Starlings. 
A few days later a ‘Jer Falcon’ was shot by John Shaw, 
a farmer at Biddulph, just beyond the Staffordshire 
border.2 As Biddulph is less than twenty miles from 
Bowdon, it is probable that this was one of the birds 
seen by Mr. Eddleston; but our efforts to trace the 
specimen have been unsuccessful, and from the meagre 
description published at the time it is impossible to 
say to which of the three British species of Gyr Falcon 
it should be attributed. 
PEREGRINE FALCON. 
FALCO PEREGRINUS, Tunstall. 
The sandy coastline of Cheshire offers no induce- 
ment for the Peregrine Falcon to breed; and although 
some of the rugged escarpments of the millstone grit 
in Longdendale afford suitable nesting-places, the 
constant vigilance of the gamekeepers makes it im- 
possible for the birds to establish themselves. There 
are now no resident Peregrines in the county, but 
within recent years there was an eyrie at Manley. 
The late J. F. Robinson wrote in 1882:—‘I have a fine 
specimen, a young male in splendid plumage, of the 
Peregrine Falcon, which was shot two years ago at 
Manley. For some two or three seasons a pair annually 
bred in the crags at the summit of Simmons Hill, 
Manley, where they were protected by the late Captain 
Harry Heron, R.N. Since his death, however, through 
1 Harrison, Zoologist, ser. 11. vol. 1. p. 30. 1866. 
2 Manchester Courier, November 4, 1865. 
