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p. 9244), by J. Cordeaux on the authority of Mr. Jones of 

 Bridlington, who sold it to Mr. Clapham of Scarborough, 

 proved to be a Goshawk, and is the one described under the 

 head of that species as being in the singular " cuckoo " plumage. 



PEREGRINE FALCON. 



Falco peregrinus (Tunstall). 



Resident, restricted now to a few pairs nesting on the north-western 

 fells, an occasional pair on the sea-cliffs, and possibly another pair in 

 Cleveland. Observed fairly regularly on migration at the coast. 



Pennant appears to have first recorded this species in 

 Yorkshire, under the head of " Grey Falcon," from a specimen 

 shot near Halifax in 1762 (" Brit. Zool." Vol. I. p. 137). 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : 



Falco peregrtnus. Peregrine Falcon Many birds have been shot 

 at different periods ; its occurrence is mentioned by most of my 

 correspondents ; it still breeds near Pickering, but is becoming much 

 more rare than formerly ; it has also bred this year at Kilnsey Crag, 

 and near Arncliff [Wharfedale]. 



In former years the records show that the Peregrine was 

 far from uncommon as a resident in the county ; and it 

 seems probable that when the sport of falconry was in vogue, 

 and this noble bird in high favour and enjoying a certain 

 degree of protection, there would hardly be a locality suitable 

 for its eyrie which was untenanted. But now all this is changed, 

 the protection has long since been withdrawn, and the former 

 favourite so far descended in the scale as to rank as " vermin " 

 in the estimation of the descendants of its former protectors. 

 Among the places where its eyries have been noted are Goath- 

 land, and Killingnab Scar, in Cleveland.* J. Hogg mentioned 



* The farmers in Newton Dale were formerly obliged, by the ancient 

 tenures of their land, to attend to the hawks which bred in Killingnab 

 Scar, in order to secure them for the King's use. These hawks were 

 said to be of large size (doubtless Peregrines), and in 1831, when Allen's 

 " History of the County of York " was published, they continued to 

 frequent their ancient place of resort. 



