150 GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
to be subject to change from the influence of years and of cli- 
mate. It is found in Iceland and Greenland entirely white. 
The raven was the constant attendant of Lewis and Clark’s 
party in their long and toilsome journey. During the winter, 
at Fort Mandan, they were observed in immense numbers, 
notwithstanding the cold was so excessive that, on the 17th 
December 1804, the thermometer stood at 45° below 0. 
Like the crow, this species may be easily domesticated, and 
in that state would afford amusement by its familiarity, frolics, 
and sagacity. But such noisy and mischievous pets, in com- 
mon with parrots and monkeys, are not held in high estima- 
tion in this quarter of the globe, and are generally overlooked 
for those universal favourites, which either gratify the eye by 
the neatness or brilliancy of their plumage, or gladden the ear 
by the simplicity or variety of their song. 
GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. (Falco peregrinus.)* 
PLATE LXXVI.—FEMALE, 
Falco peregrinus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272, 88.—Briss. i. p. 341, 6, and var. A.—Ind. 
Orn. p. 33, No. 72.—Falco barbarus, Linn. Syst. ed. 10, tom. i. p. 88, No. 6.— 
Gmel. Syst. i. p. 272, 8.—Ind. Orn. p. 33, No. 71.—Falco hornotinus, Briss. 
i. p. 824, A.—Falco niger, Id. p. 327, E.—Falco maculatus, Jd. p. 329, F.— 
Peregrine Falcon, Lath. Syn. i. p. 73, No. 52.—Id. Sup. p. 18.—Penn. Brit. 
Zool. No. 48, pl. 20.—Arct. Zool. No. 97.—Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. vii. p. 128.— 
Montagu, Orn. Dict. and Supp.—Low, Fauna Orcadensis, p. 150.—Common 
Falcon, Lath. Syn. i. p. 65, No. 49, var. A; p. 67, var. E; p. 68, var. F.— 
Spotted Hawk or Falcon, Edwards, i. p. 3.—Black Hawk or Falcon, Id. pl. 4, 
both from Hudson’s Bay.—Le Lannier, P/. enl. 430, old male.—Le Faucon Noir 
et Passager, Id. 469, young female ?—Le Faucon Hors, Jd. p. 470, yearly.— 
Faucon pélerin, Temm. Man. d’ Orn. p. 22.—Peale’s Museum, No. 386, female. 
FALCO PEREGRINUS.—LmNN&vs.t 
Falco peregrinus, Bonap. Synop. p. 27.—WNorth. Zool. ii. p. 25.—Peregrine Falcon, 
Selby, Illust. Br. Orn. pl. 15, p. 37.—Flem. Br. Anim. p. 49.—Falco pere- 
grinus? Anst. Birds in Coll. Linn. Soc. by Vig. and Horsf. vol. xv. p. 183. 
Tats noble bird had excited our curiosity for a long time. 
Every visit which we made to the coast was rendered doubly 
* It is also a European species. 
+ Among the Falconide this bird will present that form best adapted 
