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male peregrine falcon: he has figured the nniale in his 

 twenty-third plate, and made all its colors darker, 

 and the upper part of the body and the head almofl: 

 black. The fore part of the neck, the bread and 

 belly agree with the female. 



We received, a few years ago, a young bird of 

 this fpecies from the rocks of Llandidno in Caernar- 

 'uonjhire. That promontory has been long famed for 

 producing a generous breed of falcons, as appears by 

 a letter extant in Gloddaeth library, from the lord 

 treaftirer Burleigh to an anceftor of Sir Roger MojlyUy 

 in which his lordfhip thanks him for a prefent of a 

 fine call of hawks taken on thofe rocks, which be- 

 long to the family. 



VIII. The GREY FALCON. 



Br^ Zoology 65, 



THIS kind was fhot near Halifax 1762, and the 

 following account tranfmitted to us by Mr. 

 Bolton^ of JVorly- dough. This bird was about the fize Defer. 

 of a raven : the bill was ftrong, fhort, much hooked, 

 and of a bluifli color : the cere, and edges of the eye- 

 lids yellow: the irides red: the head was Tmall, 

 flatted at the top •, the fore part of a deep brown ; the 

 hind part white : the fides of the head and throat 

 were creme colored : the belly white, marked with 

 oblong black fpots : the hind part of the neck, and 

 the back were of a deep grey : the wings were very 

 long, and whenclofed reached beyond the train : the 



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