

GEMIS2. FALCO. FALCONS. 



SPECIES I. F. PEREGRINUS. 



GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 



[Plate LXX VI. Female.] 



Falco peregrinus, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 272, 88. BRISS. i, p. 341, 6, 

 and Var, A. Ind. Orn. p. 33, No. 72. Falco Barbaras, LINN. 

 Syst. ed. 10, torn, i, p. 88, No. 6.- GMEL. Syst. i,p. 272, 8. Ind. 

 Orn. p. S3, No. 71. Falco hornotinus, Biuss. i, p. 324, A. Falco 

 niger, Id. p. 327, E. Falco maculatus, Id. p. 329, F. Pere- 

 grine Falcon, LATH. Syn. i, p. 73, No. 52. 7rf. sup/, p. 1 8. 

 PENN. Brit. Zool. No. 48, pi. 20. ^rcf. Zoof. JVo. 97.- SHAW, 

 Gen. Zool. vol. vu, p. 128. MONTAGU, Orn. Diet, and Sup 1. 

 Low, Fauna Orcadensis, p. 150. Common Falcon, L\ra.Syn* 

 i, p. 65, No. 49, var. A. p. 67, var. E. p. 68. var. F. Spotted 

 Hawk or Falcon, EDWARDS, i, pi. 3. Black Hawk or Falcon, 

 Id. pi. 4, both from Hudson's Bay. Le I anier, PL enl. 430, 

 old male. Le Faucon noir et passager, Id. 469, young female? 

 Le Faucon SOTS, Id. p. 470, yearling. Faucon pelerin, TEMM. 

 Man. d'Orn.p. 22. PEAI.E'S Museum, No. 386, female. 



IT is with great pleasure that we are now enabled to give a 

 portrait of this celebrated Falcon, drawn of half the size of life, 

 in the best manner of our deceased friend; and engraved by the 

 accurate and ingenious Lawson. 



This noble bird had excited our curiosity for a long time. 

 Every visit which we made to the coast, was rendered doubly 

 interesting by the wonderful stories which we heard of its ex- 

 ploits in fowling, and of its daring enterprise. There was not 

 a shooter along the shore but knew it well; and each could re- 

 late something of it which bordered on the marvellous. It was 

 described as darting, with the rapidity of an arrow, upon the 

 ducks when on the wing, and striking them down with the 

 projecting bone of its breast. Even the wild geese were said 



