FALCON. 



Si 



27.~-PEREGRINE FALCON. 



Falco peregrinus, Ivd. Orn. i. 33. Gin. Lin. i. 272. Rail Syn. p. 13. Will. p. 43. t. 8. 



Gerin. On. i. t. 23. 24. Daicd. Orn. ii. p. 97. Bris. Orn. i. 341. Id. 8vo. 98. 



Beckst. Deutsch. ii. s. 300. t. xi. Besek. Vog. Kur. p. 7. t. 1. Shaw's Zool. vii. p. 



128. Amer. Orn. ix. 120. pi. 75. f. 3. Tern. Man. Ed. 2. p. 22, 

 Faucon Pelerin, Buf. i. 249. 1. 16. PI. Enl. 4:30. an old bird: 

 Peregrine Falcon, G«!. %H.i. 73. Id.Svp.\S. JBr. Zoo/, i. No. 48. t. 20. Id.fol. 



t:A*5. /rf. erf. 1812. i. p.2l8. pi. 20. Arct.Zool.n. No. 97. Lewin's Birds, i. 



pi. 12. Will. Engl. 76. pi. 8. Walcot. i. t. 12. Orn. Diet. Sj- Sup. Lin. Trans, 



xii. p. 529. 

 Falco niger, Bris.'i. 327. E. Id. 8vo. 94. Gm. Lin. i. 270. 

 Falco fuscus, Frisch. t.S3. Raii Si/n.^. idl. ^. 

 . Faiicon passager, Buf. i. 263. PI. Enl. 469. 

 Black Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. 67. Edu: pi. 4. 



IT appears fi'om a variety of observations, that the two, quoted 

 as ditFerent birds by authors, are in reality only the Peregrine, 

 which even in the adult state varies not a little. The general 

 description of the old bird is as follows : — length 18 in. ; breadth 36 ; 

 1 )ill bluish ; cere and irides luteous, in some dusky ; the plumage 

 above cinereous, with transverse brown bands, darkest abovit the 

 head; beneath rufous white, crossed ^vith blackish bands; tail 

 banded, cinereous and blackish, with a white tip; legs short, 

 yellow ; toes long, claws black. 



The Black, so called by authors, differs in having the feathers 

 of the upper part of the neck, wing coverts, and rump, edged 

 with white ; on each side of the head a large, curved, black mark 

 fiom the mouth, like a mustacho, in a bed of white ; under parts 

 brownish, each feather tipped with black ; wing coverts black, with 

 white spots; edges of the wing white; legs lead colour, 



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