BRITISH BIRDS. 



II 



it* 



THE PEREGRINE FALCON.* 



PASSENGER FALCON. 



(Falco per egri mis, Linn. Faucon pclerin, Temm.) 



THE length of this bird is eighteen inches, 

 breadth three feet six and a half inches, weight two 

 and a quarter pounds. The bill is pale blue, tipped 

 with black ; it is short, strong, and much notched. 

 The irides are dark ; orbits and cere yellow : the 

 head, hinder part of the neck, and cheeks are 



* The female in falconry is called a Falcon, the male a Tiercel ; 

 the female yearling is termed a red Falcon, the male a red Tiercel, 

 and when thoroughly docile is called Gentle or Gentil Hawk. This 

 is the Lanner of the British Zoology. Captin Sabine includes the 

 Falco communis of Gmelin and the French naturalists, among the 

 synonymes of the Peregrine. 



