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GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 

 FALCO PEREGRmUS. 

 [Plate LXXVL] 



Haii, Syn. p. 13, JSTo. 1 — ^Turt. Syst. T, p. ±5B ^Beion, ^ves, 116 Falco peregrinus niger, Axdr. 



^TeSf I, 239. — Sparviere pellegrinofemminaf Lorenzi, ^ves, ta&. 24. — Blue-hacked Falcon^ Char- 

 lEToifi, Exercit. 73. — Peregrine Falcon^ Penn. Br. Zool. 1, p. 156, JVo. 48, pi. 20. Jlrct. Zool, 



I, ^. 236, J\"o. 97. — ^Lath. Syn. 1, p. 73, JVo. 52 Peregrine, or haggard Falcon, Wiii.. Orn. p. 



76, tab. 8 — Spotted Hatvk or Falcon, Edwards, 1, p. 3. JBktcfe Hawk or Falcon, Idem, I, p. 4, 

 -— Le Faucon pelerin, Briss, JlveSf 1, 341. — Buef. Ois. I. j). 249, ph 16, siiir. — Peaie's Mu- 

 seum, J\*o. 386. 



IT is with great pleasure that we are now enabled to give a 

 portrait of this celebrated Hawk, drawn of half the size of life in 

 the best manner of our deceased friend ; and engraved by the ac- 

 curate and ingenious Lawson. 



This noble bird had excited our curiosity for a long time. 

 Every visit which we made to the coast, was rendered doubly in- 

 teresting by the wonderful stories which we heard of its exploits 

 in fowling, and of its daring enterprise. There was not a gunner 

 along the shore but knew it well ; and each could relate some- 

 thing of it which bordered on the marvellous. It was described 

 as darting with the rapidity of an arrow on the ducks when on 

 the wing, and striking them down with the projecting bone of its 

 breast. Even the Wild Geese were said to be in danger from its 

 attacks, it having been known to sacrifice them to its rapacity. 



To behold this hero, the terror of the wild fowl, and the 

 wonder of the sportsmen, was the chief object of our wishes. Day 

 after day did we traverse the salt marshes, and explore the ponds 

 and estuaries where the web-footed tribes frequent in immense 

 multitudes, in the hope of obtaining the imperial depredator; 

 even all the gunners of the district were summoned to our aid, 



