FALCON. RAPTORES. FALCO. 39 



PEREGRINE FALCON. 



FALCO PEREGRINUS, Linn. 

 PLATES XV. and XV. 



Faucon Pelerin, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 22. 



Falco Peregrinus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 33. 72 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272 



Bi-iss. 1. p. 341 Raii, Syn. p. 13. l.Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 49. No. 10 



Faun. Boreali Amer. 2. 23. No. 7. 



Falco Barbarus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 38. 71 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272. 



Le Faucon Pelerin, Buff. Ois. 249. t. 16. 



Wander-Faike, Bechst. Tasschenb. p. 33 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 

 p. 55. 



Le Lanier, Buff. PL Enl. 430. Adult Male. 



Peregrine Falcon, Br. Zool. 1. No. 48. t. 8 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 97 Lath. 

 Syn. 1. p. 73 Id. Supp. p. 18 Levin's Br. Birds, 1. 1. 12 Mont. Or- 

 nith. Diet Id. Supp Wale. Svn. 1. t. 12 Shaw's 2 



Bewick's Supp. Br. Birds. 

 ~ ilcc 



12 Shaw's Zool. ^. p. 128 



Syn. of 

 Adult. 



Tartarian Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 73. A. 

 Spotted Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 68 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 2. 

 Barbary Falcon, Will. (Ang.) p. 81 Lath. Syn. 1. p. 72. 

 Great-footed Rawk^Wils. Amer. Orn. ed. SirW. Jardine, 3. 251. pi. 76. 

 fern. 



Falco communis, Gmel. 1. p. 270 Lath. Ind. Ornith. I. 30. t. 67 Briss,} 



1. p. 321. 



Falco Hornotinus, Briss. 1. p. 324. A. Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 270. 

 Faucon Sors, Buff. Ois. 1. t. 13 Id. PI. Enl. 470. 

 Yearling Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 65. 

 Falco gibbosus, Briss. 1. p. 324. B Gmel. Syst. 1. 270. 

 Le Faucon Haggard, Buff. Ois. 1. 254. 

 Haggard Falcon, Will. Ang. p. 88 Lath. Syn. 1. p. 66. 

 Black Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 67 Edw. t. 4. 

 Red Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 69. 

 lied Indian Falcon, ~Will. Ang. p. 81. t. 9 Lath. Syn. 1. p. 69. 



THE uncertainty in which the history of this species was 

 long involved, appears to have arisen from the error of earlier 

 writers, in considering the Falco Peregrinus and Falco com- 

 munis, with its enumerated varieties, as two distinct species. 



Deficiency of observation, and consequent want of an ac- 

 curate knowledge of the various changes of plumage the bird 

 undergoes in its progress to maturity, naturally led to this 

 effect ; and we accordingly find, that the bird hitherto de- 

 scribed as the Falco communis, the type of the supposed 

 species, arid its varieties, must have been originally figured 



Syn. of 

 Young 



