ICELAND FALCON : PEREGRINE FALCON. 1 1 



ornithologist (with a perusal of which Mr. Clapham has favoured 

 me) he states : " The other bird is not a Jer Falcon but an 

 Iceland Falcon, not in mature plumage and most probably if not 

 certainly a male. It is a capital specimen." 



Mr. Thomas Stephenson of Whitby informs me that about 

 the year 1865, Mr. Kitching, the bird preserver of that town, 

 found one nailed on a wall along with other * vermin ' at Newton 

 House near Whitby, by the gamekeeper Parker, who shot it. 

 Mr. Kitching removed the bird, but it had been exposed too long 

 to make a specimen of; he retained portions and thinks they 

 belong to this species. 



The Jer Falcon supposed to have occurred on the Leckton 

 Moors near Pickering, and recorded in the Zoologist (1864, p. 

 9244) by Mr. Cordeaux — on the authority of Mr. Jones of Brid- 

 lington, who sold it to Mr. Clapham of Scarborough, — proved 

 to be a Goshawk, and is the one described under the head of that 

 species as being in the singular 'cuckoo' plumage. 



FALCO PEREGRINUS J. F. Gmelin. 

 Peregrine Falcon. 



A rare resident, a regular autumn and winter visitant. 



In former years the records show that the Peregrine was far 

 from uncommon as a resident in the county ; and it seems pro- 

 bable that when the sport of falconry was in vogue, and this noble 

 bird in high favour and enjoying a certain degree of pro- 

 tection, there would hardly be a locality suitable for its eyry which 

 was untenanted. But now all this is changed, the protection 

 has long since been withdrawn, and the former favourite so far 

 descended in the scale as to rank as 'vermin' in the estimation of 

 the descendants of its former protectors. Among the places where 

 its eyries have been noted are Goathland, and Killingnab Scar, 

 in Cleveland. It also bred on Black Hambleton, which was the 

 only locality from which Colonel Thornton, as he assured 



