FALCONS. RAPACES. FALCO. 3d 
Iceland is the native country of this species, from whence 
arises its trivial name. It was from this island that the Royal 
falconries of Denmark and other northern kingdoms were 
supplied with their choicest casts of hawks. 
It breeds in the highest and most inaccessible rocks ; but 
the number and colour of the eggs remain as yet undescribed. 
—It preys upon the larger species of game and wild-fowl, also Food. 
on hares and other quadrupeds, upon which it precipitates it- 
self with amazing rapidity and force. 
Its usual mode of hawking is, if possible, to out-soar its 
prey, and thence to dart perpendicularly upon it. 
Prats 14. Represents a male of this species, of middle age, 
and in the natural size; drawn from a specimen in the 
valuable collection of Jos—ErH SaBINE, Esq. 
Bill very strong and thick. Colour bluish-grey. Cere and General 
orbits lemon-yellow. Inrides reddish-brown. Head and Dee i 
neck white, with a few blackish-brown spots or streaks. 
Breast and belly white, slightly spotted in the same 
manner. Upper parts blackish-brown, the feathers spot- 
ted and margined with greyish-white, the bars of the 
feathers being also white. Tail banded, blackish-brown ' 
and white. Legs and toes yellow. Claws black. 
Peregrine Falcon.—Falco Peregrinus, Linn. 
PLATES 15 and 15*. 
Faucon Pelerin, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 22. 7 
Falco Peregrinus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 33. 72.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272.— 
Briss. 1. p. 341.—Raii, Syn. p. 13. 1. 
Falco Barbarus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 33. 71.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272. 
Le Faucon Pelerin, Buff: Ois. 249. t. 16. 
Wander. Falke, Bechst. Tasschenb. p. 33.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 
p- 59. 
Le Lanier, Buff: Pl. Enl. 430. Adult Male. Syn. of 
Peregrine Falcon, Br. Zool. 1. No. 48. t. 8.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 97.—Lath. | Adult. 
Syn. 1. p.73.—Jd. Supp. p. 18.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 12.— Mont. Or- 
nith. Dict.—/d. Supp.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 12.—-Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 128.— 
Bewick’s Supp. Br. Birds. - 
Tartarian Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 73. A. 
Spotted Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 68.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 2. 
Barbary Falcon, Will. (Ang.) p. 81.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 72. 
