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O R D. I. GEN. I. FALCON. 



SPE. XII. PEREGRINE FALCON. 



PL 12. 



Falco Peregrinus. 

 Le Faucon Pelerin. 



Brif. Orn. I. p. 341. 



This bird is equal to the moor buzzard in fize. The bill is bluiih, ftrong, 

 Ihort, very much hooked, and armed near the end of the upper mandible 

 with a fliarp procefs : the cere and eyes are yellow : crown of the head, hind 

 part of the neck, and round the fore part, and under the eyes, black : the 

 upper parts of the body are of a deep blue grey colour; elegantly barred 

 with black : the throat, and the part behind the eye, are white : the breaft is a 

 dull white: belly white j croffed with minute black ftrokes : the tail confifts 

 of feathers equal in length, of a blue colour; finely barred with black: the 

 legs are Ihort and yellow : the toes are very long. 



This fpecies breeds in the north of England, feveral parts of Cumberland, 

 and alfo in Wales ; and has fometimes been trained to falconry. It feeds on 

 various kinds of game. 



