FALCO PEREG RI N U S„ 



PEREGRINE FALCON. 



Generic Character. See Falco Chryfeatos. 



Synonyms. 



Falco Peregrinus. Ind. Orn. l. p. 33. 72. 

 Peregrine Falcon. Br. Zool. 1. 48. tab. 8. 



/o/. tab, A.* 5. ojtz. lo. 



^.73. Ib.fupt p. 18. Ate. 



Onz. iW. 1. 



T HE weight of this fpecies when full grown, is from two 

 to three pounds; length about twenty inches; breadth near 

 four feet; bill fhort, very ilrong, and fharp at the point; 

 cere, in adult birds, bright yellow ; at different periods of age 

 it varies from green to yellow ; irides yellow in the young 

 bird, changing to dufky as it advances in age ; legs fhort and 

 flrong ; toes long ; claws ftrong and much hooked ; the fexes 

 differ but little in colour ; the female exceeds confiderably 

 in fize, but the male is generally «$he brighten: coloured 

 and the livelieit bird. 



The Pere grine Falcon (or Duck Hawk, the pro- 

 vincial name of this fpecies in many parts of this country) 

 is feveral years arriving at its full plumage ; a confiderable 

 difference being obfervable in the two laft changes has induced 

 us to give the prefeht figure, as it frequently has been con- 

 fidered as a diftindt fpecies when in the prefent ftate. 



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