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success, until the present year (1906), when a pair took up 

 their quarters between Dane's Dyke and the " Dor/ 1 and were 

 only discovered when the climbers commenced work about 

 the middle of May. I visited Bempton at the end of that 

 month, and spent some considerable time at the cliffs, being 

 repeatedly rewarded with a sight of one or other of the Falcons, 

 and on some occasions both of them perched for fully half-an- 

 hour on a projecting point known as " Staple Neuk," where 

 I watched them through powerful binoculars. On 6th June 

 the climber went down purposely to locate the eyrie, which 

 he found in a part of the cliff not visible from the top ; the 

 young, three in number, fledged about the 2ist of the same 

 month. All naturalists will echo the wish that these birds 

 may continue to frequent their old-time haunts, thus im- 

 parting an additional interest to the cliffs of the Yorkshire 

 coast. Near Scarborough a pair of Peregrines arrived in the 

 winter of 1900 and nested in the following May, in a precipitous 

 cliff a few miles distant from the town, where they successfully 

 reared their young, which were frequently seen on the wing 

 together with the parent birds. The male was killed in 

 the autumn of 1901, but the female found another mate 

 and nested again in the two following years. Odd individual?, 

 chiefly in immature plumage, frequent the district between 

 Scarborough and Flamborough almost every winter. 



The late Geo. Brook of Huddersfield, stated (MS.), that 

 in 1871 a clutch of four eggs was taken from the Fells in 

 Swaledale, and the old male shot. The eggs and bird were 

 in his collection, but, as it is some years since he died, the 

 collection may have been dispersed. 



In the year 1879 a P a i f reared their young in safety in 

 the Cleveland Hills, the information concerning them being 

 supplied on condition that the locality be nameless. 



In Upper Teesdale the Peregrine has bred intermittently 

 on the Yorkshire side of the river, during the past twenty 

 years, the nesting site being sometimes occupied by Ravens 

 and in other years by the Falcons. Three eggs were taken 

 there in 1903, and the keepers trap the birds whenever oppor- 

 tunity occurs, no fewer than seven being killed in the year 1900. 



