APPENDIX F.—PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF FORFAR. 235 
Of the Order Accipitres, we find a considerable number : 
Falco albicilla; the erne : on 
‘ : 
Clova, and by the 
head of the West 
water: there is a 
rock near the head 
of it called the 
Erne “phi where 
these 
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sometimes on the 
coast 
»  Cchrysaétos; golden 
eagle: mountains 
ee the head of 
va 
ss favs ; ring-tailed 
eagle. I observed 
one of these on 
Wirron Hill, about 
twelve miles north 
from Brechin in 
1797 
oak: the kite, or 
Gled 
€ 
ater; black eagle: 
on heaths and low 
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~~ 
buteo; the buzzard. 
In a nest of one of 
these birds in the 
wood at Newmill, 
belonging to 
Colonel Kinloch, 
on breaking an 
egg, the bird con- 
tained in it had 
two heads 
apivorus; honey 
buzzard 
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~~ 
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Pe ee cong ; moor 
on the hills of 
Turin and 
Pitscandly 
Falco palumbarius ; the 
wk. This 
bird is not very 
common in Angus- 
shire 
gentilis ; i gentle 
falco 
»  peregrinus ; peregrine 
falcon. I remember 
hunting with it 
about the year 
1771. i 
recorded of one of 
* this species that 
eloped ran its 
master in the 
pone aa Forfar, 
on the 
Oct hee 1772, with 
four heavy bells on 
its feet, that it was 
killed on the 
26th at Mostyn in 
Flintshire. This 
shews the great 
rapidity of its 
€ 
one of this species 
on the estate of 
species several 
times in the neigh- 
bourhood of Forfar 
