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for its eyrie ; indeed, except at Newbaven, I have 

 not been able to ascertain that a second pair 

 were established, even 011 the coast, during the 

 breeding-season, although the great locomotive 

 powers and wandering propensities of this bird 

 might induce a hasty observer to imagine that a 

 greater number were quartered on the cliffs be- 

 tween Brighton and Beachy Head. 



During the latter part of the autumn the young 

 peregrines are banished by their parents from the 

 nest, arid being left to shift for themselves, com- 

 mence " the grand tour " on their own account. 



These at first linger for awhile in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the scenes of their youth, but event- 

 ually scatter over the world, and doubtless it is 

 from their ranks that deficiencies, caused by 

 the death of older birds during subsequent breed- 

 ing-seasons, are supplied with such mysterious 

 rapidity. 



A falcon of this species occasionally makes his 

 appearance during the winter in the neighbour- 

 hood of the lakes, or large ponds, in Burton Park, 

 about three miles south of Petworth. The banks 

 of these waters are covered with masses of reeds, 

 and abound at all seasons with wild ducks, teals, 

 coots and water-hens, whose numbers are rein- 

 forced during the winter by flocks of wigeon, 

 pochards, and scaup ducks, as well as by consi- 



