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persecution they have entirely disappeared from the 
locality.’ ? 
Brockholes does not appear to have noticed the 
Peregrine Falcon in Wirral, although it occasionally 
frequents the coast and marshes in autumn and winter 
in pursuit of the wildfowl. Byerley mentions that, 
the bird has been seen at New Brighton;? Captain 
Congreve has one in his collection labelled ‘ Burton, 
1840’;3 and Mr. Edward Comber has another, which 
was shot in the same neighbourhood whilst chasing 
a couple of Sheld Duck. 
In the south-west of the county these Falcons occur 
not infrequently in the winter months, and Mr. R. 
Newstead, who has several times found the remains 
of Redwings in their stomachs, thinks that they follow 
these birds on their migration. Dr. Dobie mentions 
that Mr. H. Garland has a male in his collection which 
was obtained at Eaton, and that there are two other 
specimens in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, from 
the same estate. One of these is dated January 16th, 
1890, and the other November 17th, 1891. Eight 
days after the last-mentioned bird was obtained, a 
female was shot by Mr. Lyle Smith’s gamekeeper at 
Barrow. The bird has also been obtained at Aldford 
and Ince.* 
The Peregrine Falcon is rarer in Mid Cheshire, 
although Mr. J. Kenyon, the Earl of Egerton’s head- 
keeper, has seen it on the Tatton Estate. 
It is well known as a visitor in autumn to the grouse- 
moors of Longdendale, and scarcely a winter passes 
without one or more being killed. We have seen in 
the gamekeepers’ cottages in this valley birds in both 
1 Manchester City News, July 8, 1882. 
2 Byerley, op. cit. p. 10. 3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 315. 
