JUNE. PEREGRINE FALCON. 245 



attracts down to her some wandering hawk of her 

 own kind. The peregrine falcon is well named, 

 for it is found in all countries. 



Our bird from good food, and having always had 

 the run of a large garden, instead of being confined 

 in a room or cage, has grown to a great size, and 

 is in peculiarly fine plumage ; with the dark slate 

 colour of her upper feathers forming a beautiful 

 contrast to the rich cream-coloured shade of her 

 neck and breast. 



There is scarcely any common animal too large 

 for her to attack when she is hungry. She will fly 

 at dog or cat, as readily as at a rabbit or a rat. 

 The latter animal she kills with great dexterity and 

 quickness ; and I have also found the remains of 

 half-grown rabbits, who, having feloniously made 

 their way into the garden, have fallen a prey to her 

 powerful talons. 



On changing my residence some weeks ago I 

 gave a tame peregrine falcon I then had to a friend 

 in the neighbourhood, who keeps her in a walled 

 garden, where she soon became quite at home, and 

 learnt to know her new master as well as she had 

 known me. She almost startled me one day as 1 

 was walking in his garden with a bunch of dark- 

 coloured grapes in my hand. The falcon as T 

 passed by her mistaking the grapes for a bird or 



