220 PEREGRINE FALCON. Class II. 



its length eighteen inches and a half: the weight 

 only twenty four ounces and a half. It was 

 most excessively fat. As it was inferior in 

 weight to the other, it probably was a male 

 bird. 



This species breeds on the rocks of Llan" 

 dudno in Caernart^onshire. That promontory 

 has been long famed for producing a generous 

 kind, as appears by a letter extant in Gloddaeth 

 library, from the lord treasurer Burleigh to an 

 ancestor of Sir Roger Mostyn, in which his 

 lordship thanks him for a present of a fine cast 

 of hawks taken on those rocks, which belong to 

 the family. They are also very common in the 

 north of Scotland, and arc sometimes trained 

 for falconry by some few gentlemen who still 

 take delight in this amusement in that part of 

 Great Britain. Their flight is amazingly rapid : 

 one that was reclamed by a gentleman in the 

 shire of Angus, a county on the east side of 

 Scotland, eloped from his master with two heavy 

 bells to each foot, on the twenty-fourth of Sep- 

 tember 1772, and was killed in the morning of 

 the twenty-sixth, near Mostyn, Flintshire. 



