IS 



FALCON. 



52. 



•f- PEREGRINE 

 F. 



Peregrine Falcon, Gen. Syti. i. p. 73. N° 52. — Jr^. Zool. N" gj, 



'HIS bird breeds in fome high rocks not far from Giljland, m 

 Cumberland ; alfo in fome of the mountains about Kefwick. 

 A female, killed May 1781, weighed thirty-fix ounces and a quar- 

 terj was nineteen inches in length, and forty-two in breadth. Is 

 very deftruftive to game : near the neft were found the remains of 

 Moor-game, Partridges, Plovers, &c. Is very noify and clamorous.. 

 The young in the.neft were three in number, and the 7nak fed them 

 for a week or ten days after the female was killed *. 



The Peregrine Falcon is alfo common on the continent of Eu- 

 rope in fummer ; is frequent in Kamtfchatka •, wanders in fummer 

 to the very Ar£iic circle, but returns to the fouth in winter. In- 

 habits alfo America, {{'om Carolina to Hudfon's Bay, where it is of a. 

 larger fize : at the laft place known by the name of Papana 

 few Kaycakl: it varies extremely at different periods of age f. 



54- 

 4- ROUGH- 

 LEGGED F, 



Var. 



Roagh-legged Falcon, Gen. Syn. 1. p. 75. N° 54. — Ai'S. Zool. N° 92. 



Bird greatly refembling this fpecies, and which I am inclined 

 to think a variety, is in my colleftion ; it meafures one foot 

 ten inches, and differs chiefly in the tail, the ground of which is a 

 cream-coloured white ; near the tip is a bar of brown above an 

 inch in breadth j above that, a fecond of about half an inch broad -, 

 and above thefcj each feather has a fpot upon it in the middlej 

 mimicking, when fpread, a third bar; befides which, the twO' 



* Dr. Heyjham. 



f It is not improbable but my N° 49. Var. E. and F. may prove the fame 

 birds. — Var. E. is in my own colleftion ; it is certainly greatly like the Peregrine 

 F. but is a much larger bird. « 



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