Crass I. PEREGRINE FALCON. 
that was fhot in Hamp/fbire, juft as it had ftruck 
down a Rook and was_tearing it to pieces. The 
whole under fide of the body was of a deep dirty 
yellow, but the black bars were the fame as in 
that above defcribed. The weight of this was two 
pounds eight ounces; the breadth thirty eight 
inches. 
This fpecies breeds on the rocks of Llandidno in 
Caernarvonfhire. "That promontory has been long 
famed for producing a generous kind, as appears 
by a letter extant in Gleddaeth library, from the 
lord treafurer Burleigh to an anceftor of Sir Roger 
Moftyn, in which his lordfhip thanks him for a pre- 
fent of a fine caft of hawks taken on thofe rocks, 
which belong to the family. They are alfo very 
common in the north of Scotland; and are fome- 
times trained for falconry by fome few gentlemen 
who ftill take delight in this amufement in that part 
of Great Britain. Their flight is amazingly rapid: 
one that was reclamed by a gentleman in the hire 
of Angus, a county on the eait fide of Scotland, e- 
Joped from his mafter with two heavy bells to © 
each foot, on the twenty-fourth of September 1772, 
and was killed in the morning of the twenty-fixth, 
near Mojiyn, Plintfbire. ; 
Grey 
