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from the rocks about Holyhead, and the Great Orme's 

 Head ; and in Ireland, Mr. Thompson informs me it is 

 not uncommon in rocky situations inland as well as marine. 

 Mr. Selby, in the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Natu- 

 ralists 1 Club, has noticed both adult birds and their young 

 in the vicinity of St. Abb's Head ; in Scotland it is also 

 well known, and Sir William Jardine, in his Notes on this 

 bird, in his edition of Wilson's American Ornithology, 

 names the Vale of Moffat in Dumfriesshire, the Bass Rock, 

 and the Isle of May in the Forth, as places in which these 

 noble birds rear their young, returning to the same spot, 

 for the same purpose, many years in succession. This 

 species breeds annually in the Outer Hebrides and the 

 Shetland Isles, and is found also in Denmark, Sweden, 

 Norway, and Lapland. Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, 

 includes the Peregrine as an inhabitant of the Uralian and 

 Siberian Mountains ; and it is found also in Greenland. 

 In North America and the United States this species is 

 well known, and its habits are described by the various 

 naturalists who have written on the birds of that country. 

 Captain King, when surveying the Straits of Magellan, 

 found two birds which he considered to be young Pere- 

 grines. It is found at Corfu, Sicily, and Malta ; Dr. An- 

 drew Smith has recorded it as inhabiting the vicinity of 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; Mr. Blyth has found it in India ; 

 and Mr. Vigors and Dr. Horsfield have included this 

 species in their Catalogue of the Birds of New Holland, 

 published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society. 



The whole length of an adult Peregrine Falcon is from 

 fifteen to eighteen inches, depending on the sex and age of 

 the bird. The beak is blue, approaching to black at the 

 point ; the cere and eyelids yellow, the irides dark hazel 

 brown ; the top of the head, back of the neck, and a spot 



