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Museum. These Falcons are trained in India for 
the chase of the smaller Indian bustards, as well 
as of partridges, and some of the gallinaceous birds. 
The third species, / peregrinus, has been called, 
from its migratory habits, the Peregrine Falcon, and 
was the Falcon most frequently used in former times 
in Great Britain and Europe for hawking the heron 
and other marsh birds, for which purpose it is still 
employed in India. 
The Peregrine Falcon naturally preys much upon 
sea-fowl, and still frequents many parts of Great 
Britain, nesting in rocky cliffs, and usually preferring 
those adjacent to the sea-coast, though in very much 
smaller numbers than in former times when guns were 
scarcer, and wild birds less molested than is now the case. 
The Peregrine Falcon has the widest geographical 
range of any species of the genus falco, extending 
over the continents of America, Africa, Europe, and 
Asia, extending as far northwards as the Arctic 
regions, and as far south as Chili in America, and the 
Cape of Good Hope Colony in Africa; its western 
range reaching to Vancouver's Island, and its eastern 
to Japan. 
In Australia and Tasmania the Peregrine Falcon 
is replaced by an allied species, Falco melanogenys, 
which principally differs from the true Peregrine in the 
narrowness of the intervals which divide the black 
transverse bars on the under parts of the adult bird ; 
this species ranges northwards to many of the islands 
