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Foss, on Loch Tummel, Perthshire, in the spring of 1862, and which 

 is now, or was then, in the collection of Edward C. Newcome, Esq., 

 of Feltwell Hall, Brandon. It was shot by J. Campbell {v. Gray's 

 Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 21). 



Col. Drummond Hay considered these two to be the only ones 

 authenticated at the time he wrote his latest paper in 1 880. 



In the Montrose Museum there is a bird with the following 

 legend: "Gyr Falcon" {sic), and the note: "This bird was shot by 

 Mr. John Cowie, gamekeeper, Fettercairn, December 1870. It had 

 a leather thong round one of the legs, which is still on the specimen " 

 (Montrose Museum). 



Col. Drummond Hay also believes that he saw a Greenland Falcon 

 — or an Iceland (?) — at Castle Menzies, when he (Col. Drummond 

 Hay) was a lad. 



Don's early account is to the effect that he saw "one of this 

 species" (naming it Falco candicans, "Gyr Falcon") "on the estate 

 of Mr. Robertson Scott, of Hedderwick, in September 1810"; but he 

 adds : "I rather think it is rare." I think there can be no certainty 

 of the species. 



In 1870 Mr. Macgregor, Drumouchter, told me that he had once 

 shot "a large white Falcon" on his beat. And when I showed him 

 a photograph which I had just obtained of a bird belonging to Lord 

 Lovat, and which Mr. M'Leay, Inverness, had given to me a few days 

 before, Macgregor said "That was the bird," and further described it 

 as being "very white." I was not, however, able to trace where 

 this bird went to, or if I did, I did not make a note of it at the time. 



Mr. D. Dewar got a large Falcon, apparently an Iceland Falcon, 

 near Killin, and this also I have not traced. Subsequent inquiry 

 has not resulted in more definite results. 



Since the above account was written I have been enabled to 

 ascertain that a Rannoch specimen was sent to Mr. Small, of Edinburgh, 

 for preservation, and it appears in his register as an " Iceland Falcon," 

 under date of 11th May 1888 (Small's registers, from 1866 to date). 



Falco peregrinus, L. Peregrine Falcon. 



Common. Resident. Breeds. 



The old Statistical Account has some more than usually interesting 

 remarks, culled from previous accounts, e.g. "Falconers came even 

 from England to take away the young ones from the eyrie near 

 Moulin, Perth " (vol. viii. p. 58). Again : " The real Game-Hawk " 

 (op. cit., p. 572) ; and, "A pair from this locality" (viz. Glen Turrit, 

 Perth) " was presented to the king at his coronation, as a token of 



