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met with inland: sometimes near Petworth, Burton Park, 

 Lewes, Chichester, Arundel, Seaford, Pevensey, Shoreham, and 

 Bye; but seldom on the Weald. Two curious instances of 

 the obtaining of the Peregrine are mentioned by A. E. Knox, 

 Esq. : one was caught in a net, with which a person was 

 catching sparrows from under the eaves of a barn, and the 

 other was shot by a farmer, after it had dashed at a stuffed 

 wood-pigeon, which he had fixed up in a field as a lure to 

 decoy others within shot. I am informed by my friend, the 

 Rev. R. P. Alington, that it is not uncommon in the spring 

 in the neighbourhood of Swinhope, in Lincolnshire. One was 

 shot near there a few years since by Thomas Harneis, Esq., 

 of Hawerby House. Others have been met with in Worces- 

 tershire one in 1849; some on Dartmoor, in Devonshire; and 

 one was caught in a trap at Mutley, in 1831. 



In Yorkshire, the Peregrine has had eyries at Kilnsea Cragi^ 

 and Arncliife, in Wharfedale, in Craven, as also near Pickering, 

 and on Black Hambleton, the cliffs of the Isle of Wight, 

 and of Devonshire and Cornwall ; and it still breeds on Xew- 

 haven cliff, and the high cliffs which form Beechy Head, in 

 Sussex. A pair have been in the habit of building there for 

 the last quarter of a century: three young birds were taken 

 from the nest in 1849, and came into the possession of Mr. 

 Thomas Thorncroffc, of Brighton, who in his letter to me, 

 describes them as very docile and noble : such they are indeed 

 described to be by all who have kept them. The Bass rock 

 in the Frith of Forth has been another of its breeding-places : 

 as also the neighbourhood of Holyhead; the Great Orme's 

 Head; the rock of Llandedno, in Caernarvonshire; the precipice 

 of Dumbarton Castle; the Isle of May; the Vale of Moffatt. 

 in Dumfriesshire; many of the precipitous rocks of Suther- 

 landshire; the neighbourhood of Banff and St. Abb's Head; 

 the borders of Selkirkshire, Loch Cor, Loch Ruthven, Knock- 

 dolian, in Ayrshire; Ailsa, Ballantrae, and Portpatrick, in 

 Scotland. 



In Ireland it has had, according to William Thompson, 

 Esq., of Belfast, many eyries in the cliffs of the four maritime 

 counties of Ulster, as well as some in other parts: in Antrim 

 no fewer than nine, three of them being inland, Glenariff, 

 Salah Braes, and the Cave-hill. So also at Me. Art's fort, 

 three miles from Belfast, -Fairhead and Dunluce Castle, the 

 Horn in Donegal and Knockagh hill, near Carrickfergus, the 

 Gobbins at the northern entrance to Belfast Bay, where two 



