8 THE ZOOLOGIST, 



gorged with food, sit on a clod of earth, where their lighter 

 coloured breasts make them conspicuous. When gorged they 

 will sometimes let a mounted man ride fairly near them before 

 taking wing. Just round here (Bloxham) I think they live on 

 Wood-Pigeons, but I have sometimes seen the remains of 

 Mistle-Thruehes, which looked as if they had been killed by a 

 falcon, and once I saw a falcon try to carry off a Eed-legged 

 Partridge which had been shot in a "drive" during a gale of 

 wind, and fallen a long way behind the guns. The last Peregrine 

 I saw about here (apparently from its size a female) was on 

 March 29th last, over some grass-closes with a good deal of 

 hedgerow timber, just outside the village ; it was flying just 

 over the tops of the trees, and no doubt was looking for a 

 Wood-Pigeon. I was not near enough to see if it was an old 

 blue bird or not. 



