214 BIRD-LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 



was certainly the case with the Stormy Petrel, 

 which was discovered to breed on the Oar Stone 

 in Tor Bay by my late old friend Else ; whether 

 it does so elsewhere along our coast is not yet 

 known, but there can scarcely be any reasonable 

 doubt that such is the case. The above short 

 list exhausts the sea-birds breeding on the 

 mainland of the south coast of Devonshire. Of 

 land-birds, however, there are not a few, and 

 some of them very interesting species. These 

 we now propose to glance at, beginning with the 

 Raptores. 



It affords us more than ordinary pleasure to be 

 able to record the Peregrine Falcon as still indi- 

 genous to Devonshire. Notwithstanding almost 

 ceaseless persecution the bird somehow manages 

 to hold its ground, and eyries are situated here 

 and there along the coast. We often meet with 

 this fine Falcon in our journeys along the cliffs, 

 especially in autumn, when a good many birds of 

 this species pass along the coast on migration. 

 We have also seen it along the downs between 

 Babbacombe and Shaldon, while it has been 

 recorded as nesting on the fine cliffs at Wat- 

 combe, just outside Torquay. The Raven from 



