172 ThE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



Mr. J. Pettitt, of Colchester, informs me that, in Feb., 1888, one visited 



Paglesham, where his uncle, Mr. R. 

 Pettitt, made various unsuccessful at- 

 tempts to obtain it ; one day, \Yhen 

 he had no gun, he was able to get 

 near enough to see distinctly what 

 it was. Mr. J. F. T. Wiseman in- 

 forms me that one was shot there about 

 the middle of Nov., 1888. 



GREEXLAND FALCON, l/io. 



Peregrine Falcon : Faico peregrinus. 



Now only an uncommon and irregular w 

 though it still breeds not very rarely on high 





PEREGRINE FALCON, Jo. 



gentleman who kindly presented it to me. 

 fine adult male specimen shot at Borley." 



inter visitor to Essex, 

 rocky cliffs in other 

 parts of England. It 

 certainly does not 

 now breed in any part 

 of Essex, and Mr. 

 Clarke's record of its 

 having bred — pre- 

 sumably in a tree, 

 which is unusual — 

 at Sampford as lately 

 as 1843, is very inter- 

 esting. Most of the 

 specimens met with 

 are immature birds 

 of the year. 



W. D. King sa3-s (20) 

 that in the district a- 

 round Sudbury it was rare 

 in his time. He adds : — 



" In the winter of 

 1835-6, a splendid female 

 was shot in a meadow 

 close to our town by a 

 The following winter, I received a 



