PLATE LIIL 



FALCO PEREGRINUS. 

 PEREGRINE FALCON. 



ACCIPITRES. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in each 

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 

 and more beautiful than the males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like 

 membrane or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cere, legs and feet yellow. Beak blue. Above afh colour bar* 

 red with black and brown. Beneath white tinged with brown, with 

 longitudinal and tranfverfe lines. 



Falco Peregrinus. Rail Syn. p. 13. No, 1. 

 Peregrine, or Haggard Faicon. Will. Orn. p. 76. u 8* 

 Blue backed Falcon. Charlton Exer, &c. 73. 

 Peregrine Falcon : Penn. Br. Zool. N°. 48. /. 2o* 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 1. 52. p. 73, 



* SuppL 18. 



Le Faucon pelerin. Brif. Orn. i.p. 341. N° 6, 

 Buff. Oif. up. 249. 



The Peregrine Falcon is very common in the north of Scotland, 

 where it is trained for falconry ; it does not, however, appear to be 

 common in England. It breeds on fome high rocks near Gil/land 



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