54 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



fowl, in the south. It is, however, impossible for any- 

 one to give the true " bill of fare" of a Peregrine, as, on 

 examining a dozen nests, there will be found the 

 remains of different victims in each. 



Though certainly an enemy to the game preserver in 

 the north (every Falcon destroying on an average at 

 least one brace of Grouse or other game birds in a day), 

 I should be sorry to see this dashing Hawk " improved " 

 off the face of the country, and would say, in the words 

 of Mr. Jorrocks, " Be to his wirtues ever kind ; be to 

 his faults a leetle blind/' 



The specimens in the case were obtained on the hills 

 above the Lochs of Koro, in the north-west of Perth- 

 shire, in June, 1867. 



The birds were so wary, and the position of the nest 

 so exposed in the bare face of a precipice of at least 

 one hundred feet in height, that it was impossible to 

 get a shot at either of them ; so removing three of the 

 young I stumped the remaining one down, and set a 

 couple of traps on each side of it. 



The female was taken the same evening, but it was 

 three days before the male bird was seen ; when, on 

 examining the traps early in the morning, we found 

 an unfledged duckling in the first trap and the Falcon 

 in the second. He had evidently sprung the first trap 

 with the prey he had been bringing, and then in his 

 vain attempt to drag the duckling, trap and all, to the 

 young one, had been himself caught in the second. 



During the three 'days between the capture of the 

 parents, we had kept the young Hawk alive by feeding 

 it with trout, fresh caught from the Loch at the foot of 

 the hill, OD which it seemed to thrive well. 



