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shire, in which county, however, the eyries at Mull of Galloway, Port Patrick, and Barrow Head 

 are now all but abandoned." 



The Peregrine does not appear to occur in Iceland ; but, according to Professor Newton, it 

 is said to breed generally throughout Greenland, certainly up to lat. 69° N., and in many of the 

 islands to the westward of Baffin's Sea. Examples obtained by Dr. Walker, of the ' Fox ' 

 R.Y. S., at Port Kennedy (lat. 72° N.), are specifically undistinguishable from European speci- 

 mens. Dr. Otto Finsch also, in some interesting notes on a collection of birds from South-west 

 Greenland, remarks that examples from there closely agree with others from the mainland of 

 Europe ; but I cannot agree with him in uniting Falco melanogenys, Gould, with our European 

 Peregrine. 



Mr. H. C. Miiller records but one instance of its occurrence (at Kollefjord, in September 

 1867) in the Faeroes; but it is common in Scandinavia. Mr. Collett says that it breeds here and 

 there both in the interior of Norway as far north as South Varanger and Vadso, and on the 

 coast up to the Lofoten Islands. In South Norway it passes up into the alpine region in 

 summer, and is found throughout the entire range of the Jotunfjeld and Dovre; but it also 

 breeds here and there in the lowlands, as for instance in the Christiania valley and Smaalehncne. 

 Pastor Sommerfelt says that it is a rare bird on the Varangerfiord, and that it is doubtful if it 

 breeds there. In a letter lately received Mr. Collett informs me that on two occasions 

 Mr. Nordvi obtained a clutch of four eggs of a Falcon, taken in a mountain at Najsseby in 

 Finmark, which are less than those of the Peregrine, but larger than those of the Hobby. Two 

 of these eggs, now in the collection of Mr. II. Seebohm, I have seen, and am unable to state 

 with certainty to what species they belong ; but they certainly appear to me to be only abnormally 

 small Peregrine's eggs. Professor Sundevall states that the Peregrine breeds on the Swedish side 

 as far north as Njunnatsfjeld, near Quickjock, in 67^ N. lat., and at Juckasjarvi in 68° N. lat. ; 

 and in Finland it is tolei'ably widely distributed throughout the country. I met with it in most 

 parts of the country, but only found it breeding in the high north. In Russia it ranges far north. 

 I have received it from near Archangel ; and Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Seebohm obtained it on 

 the river Petchora. 



Mr. Sabanaeff says that it is generally distributed in the Governments of Moscow, Smolensk, 

 Jaroslaf, and Vladimir, and is frequently seen on the spires in the city of Moscow. In the Tula 

 Government it is rare, is found in that of Orloff during passage, and is but seldom seen in the 

 Kieff Government. It breeds near Moscow. In the Ural he met with it exclusively in the 

 mountains. 



I have met with the present species in the Baltic provinces, and in all parts of North 

 Germany I have visited, and have several times obtained its eggs from Pomerania, where it 

 would appear to breed not unfrequently. Professor Kjserbolling says it is neither rare nor 

 common in Denmark, where it is also found breeding. And it breeds in some portions of Western 

 Germany ; for Mr. Carl Sachse informs me that its nest is sometimes found in inaccessible cliffs 

 on the Rhine. Mr. H. M. Labouchere writes to me that it has never yet been found breeding 

 in Holland, but it visits that country annually, arriving from the north-east during the months 

 of October, November, and December, and repassing it in March or April, when they return to 

 their breeding-places. Most of the specimens seen there are young birds. 



