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the gull-hawk, the puffin-hawk, the duck-hawk, 

 the sharp-winged hawk, the great blue hawk, 

 the great hawk of Benbulben, the hawk of Cadia, 

 &c., invariably turned out to be the peregrine, 

 whether the appellation was conveyed in the 

 language of the Saxon, the ancient Briton, or 

 the Celt. 



The jealousy inherent in this bird and certain 

 other raptores prompts them to expel their young 

 from the neighbourhood of the nest as soon as 

 they are able to provide for themselves, nor do 

 they appear to tolerate the intrusion of another 

 pair within many miles of the original stronghold. 

 The extensive geographical distribution of the 

 peregrine for it has been found in all regions 

 of the old and new worlds together with its 

 hardihood and enduring powers of flight, will 

 account for these exiles being able to pitch their 

 tents as colonists in any quarter of the globe. 

 Certain it is, that many birds of the year, or 

 ' passage hawks ' as they were termed by our 

 ancestors, to distinguish them from the ( eyas,' 

 or bird taken from the eyrie, are known to ap- 

 pear in Holland, and different parts of the Con- 

 tinent, at the period of the southern autumnal 

 migration, when the old falconers used to capture 

 them by means of a net and a lure ; and evidence 

 is wanting to show that these birds ever return 



