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and west coasts), occasionally north England, and elsewhere very 

 rarely, viz. : Denbigh, Brecon, Pembroke, Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, 

 Devon and Lundy Island, Cornwall and Scilly Isles. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in Greenland and arctic North 

 America, west to Commander Islands, straying casually to western 

 Europe (Faeroes, north France, Germany, not so rarely to Iceland). 

 Apparently represented by other forms in the Ural and parts of 

 north Asia, and possibly south of Hudson's Bay. 



FALCO PEREGRINUS 



233. Falco peregrinus peregrinus Tunst. THE PEREGRINE 

 FALCON. 



FALCO PEREGRINUS Tunstall, Ornithologia Britannica, p. 1 (1771 



Ex Brit. Zool., p. 136 Great Britain). 



Falco peregrinus britannicus Erlanger, Journ. f. Orn., 1903, p. 296 



(England). 



Falco peregrinus J. F. Gmelin, Yarrell, i, p. 53 ; Saunders, p. 347. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Resident and passage -migrant. In 

 south England confined as breeding-bird to cliffs of south and south- 

 west coasts, but in Wales, north England, Scotland (mainland and 

 islands) and Ireland much more common and breeds both sea-cliffs 

 and inland rocks. In autumn northerly-bred birds pass through 

 Great Britain on migration, while in winter our residents are fre- 

 quently observed inland. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North and central Europe. Represented 

 by allied forms in the Mediterranean countries, north -w r est Africa, 

 various parts of Asia, Australia, and America. 



234. Falco peregrinus anatum Bp. THE NORTH AMERICAN 

 PEREGRINE. 



FALCO ANATUM Bonaparte, Geogr. & Comp. List, p. 4 (1838 New Jersey). 

 Falco peregrinus, E. Bidwell, Bull. B.O.C., xxvii, p. 103 ; cf. Brit. B., 

 v, p. 219. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Two. One shot Newbold Verdon near 

 Market Bosworth (Leicester), Oct. 31, 1891 (ut supra}. One netted 

 Humberstone (Lines.), Sept. 28, 1910 (G. H. Caton-Haigh, Brit. B., 

 v, p. 219). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds over greater part of North 

 America (but replaced in north-west coast region by a very closely- 

 allied race, Falco peregrinus pealei] from Norton Sound in Alaska, 

 northern Mackenzie, Boothia Peninsula, and west Greenland to 

 Lower California, Arizona, Texas, south Carolina, and winters from 



