PEREGRINE. 
PEREGRINE-FALCON. 
PLATE XIII. 
Faleo peregrinus, ; ‘ ; Latuam. FLemine. 
Falco communis, . 4 . Lataam. SELBy. 
Tuts ‘Falcon gentil,’ a noble bird, builds its nest 
early in the spring, and the young are hatched about 
the first week in May. The old situation is resorted 
to from year to year. 
The nest is flat in shape, and is placed on a projection, 
or in a crevice of some rocky cliff. It is fabricated of 
sticks, sea-weed, and such like materials, and lined 
more or less with hair. Sometimes the bird will appro- 
priate the old nest of some other species, and sometimes 
be satisfied with a mere hollow in the bare rock, with 
occasionally a little earth in it. 
The eggs are two, three, four, or, though but rarely, 
five in number, and rather inclining to rotundity of form. 
Their ground colour is light russet red, which is ele- 
gantly marbled over with darker shades, patches, and 
streaks of the same, but they vary much according to 
the age of the bird. 
One variety has the ground colour a rich yellowish 
brown, elegantly mottled over with blots of very deep 
red, and here and there a little pink. 
A second has the ground colour the same, but of a 
