PEREGRINE FALCON. 
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He also says that there is no place on the English 
coast where the falcon can be seen so easily as on the 
White Cliff at Bembridge. He " has visited it some 
twenty times, and never missed seeing one or a pair of 
these representatives of what is perhaps the oldest family 
remaining in the island." 
Warner also ("History of the Isle of Wight," 1795), 
mentions that the " Culver Cliffs were in some degree of 
repute, from their producing in great abundance a small 
species of hawk, of great strength and spirit, much used in 
sporting for partridges, and other birds of equal or inferior 
size. As this amusement is, however, now obsolete, the 
breed which still continues is allowed to build its aerial nest 
and pursue its depredations on young game, pigeons, etc., 
without molestation. I take it to be the Falco nisus of 
Linnaeus " ; but, of course, he was wrong in the identifica- 
tion of the species. 
In Bury's time ("Zoologist," 1844), it was "known to 
breed regularly at four different points along our coast : 
on Main Bench, between Freshwater and the Needles, as 
mentioned by Mr. Yarrell, its eyrie has been established 
for many years ; and the same may be said of the Culver 
Cliffs, at the eastern extremity of the island. On the cliffs 
to the westward of Shanklin Chine it has been observed 
for seven or eight years, and a fourth pair has been long 
settled in the neighbourhood of Blackgang Chine. A fifth 
eyrie is, I think, to be found in Chale Bay, but I cannot 
positively assert it." 
He also states that the pair nesting on Freshwater 
Cliffs were, before 1839, for fourteen years successively 
robbed of their young. 
More (" Natural History of the Isle of Wight," i860), 
also mentions their having for long nested at the Fresh- 
