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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



ON LAKE OR CRAGGY SEACOAST MAY DWELL A BOLD WORLD WANDERER 



Here on the Monterey cliffs above the foaming Pacific lived a family of duck hawks, American 

 form of the peregrine (meaning "alien" or "wandering") falcon. Its cousins were the noble birds 

 of falconry's heyday in old England. Another relative, tJie prairie falcon, a lover of mountain ranges 

 and arid plains, is the American representative of the!T««if|' a desert falcon fiown in olden times by 

 Oriental potentates. 



