PEREGRINE FALCON. 43 
from the rocks about Holyhead, and the Great Orme’s 
Head ; and in Ireland, Mr. Thompson informs me it is 
not uncommon in rocky situations inland as well as marine. 
Mr. Selby, in the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Natu- 
ralists’ Club, has noticed both adult birds and their young 
in the vicinity of St. Abb’s Head; in Scotland it is also 
well known, and Sir William Jardine, in his Notes on this 
bird, in his edition of Wilson’s American Ornithology, 
names the Vale of Moffat in Dumfriesshire, the Bass Rock, 
and the Isle of May in the Forth, as places in which these 
noble birds rear their young, returning to the same spot, 
for the same purpose, many years in succession. This 
species breeds annually in the Outer Hebrides and the 
Shetland Isles, and is found also in Denmark, Sweden, 
Norway, and Lapland. Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, 
includes the Peregrine as an inhabitant of the Uralian and 
Siberian Mountains; and it is found also in Greenland. 
In North America and the United States this species is 
well known, and its habits are described by the various 
naturalists who have written on the birds of that country. 
Captam King, when surveying the Straits of Magellan, 
found two birds which he considered to be young Pere- 
ormes. It is found at Corfu, Sicily, and Malta; Dr. An- 
drew Smith has recorded it as inhabiting the vicinity of 
the Cape of Good Hope; Mr. Blyth has found it in India; 
and Mr. Vigors and Dr. Horsfield have included this 
species in their Catalogue of the Birds of New Holland, 
published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society. 
The whole length of an adult Peregrine Falcon is from 
fifteen to eighteen inches, depending on the sex and age of 
the bird. The beak is blue, approaching to black at the 
point ; the cere and eyelids yellow, the irides dark hazel 
brown; the top of the head, back of the neck, and a spot 
