LITTLE FALCON 
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But there can only be a very few Little Falcons 
left now, in spite of its having formerly been a regular 
breeding species. One was shot on the Beach Hill, 
immediately north of the Eastern Park, at the beginning 
of the year 1892, since when I have not met with 
another close to the town. In 1893 and, as I believe, 
for a season or two afterwards, a pair of these birds 
had a nest in a giant ironbark tree on Mr. Berthon's 
Wybalenna Estate at Airey's Inlet ; viewed from 
below, it seemed rather large for the bird. 
The upper surface of this bird is dark grey, under 
reddish orange ; forehead whitish ; throat and chest 
buffy-white, chest feathers with central stripe of 
brown. 
BLACK-CHEEKED FALCON 
Rhynchodon peregrinus macropus 
The Black-cheeked Falcon (sometimes called " Duck- 
hawk ") is the Australian counterpart of the Peregrine 
Falcon of Europe, the bird chiefly employed in the 
sport of falconry. It is quite certain that, did any 
one in Australia care to revive this mode of hunting, 
this Falcon would be admirably adapted to the 
purpose, for in the bush it is bold in the pursuit 
of birds much larger than itself, and has, within my 
knowledge, been seen to kill at one time a Blue Crane 
and at another a Black Duck in full flight. But the 
old tale of merciless persecution of all Hawks has to 
