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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
water and Culver Cliffs, as well as in the Undercliff, and 
being even then much persecuted. 
Mr. Meade-Waldo (" Victoria Histor>- of Hants ") says 
it also attempts to nest occasionally on St. Catherine's 
Point. 
To return to the mainland. In 1767 Gilbert White 
procured one from the parish of Faringdon : " It haunted 
a marshy piece of ground in quest of wild ducks and 
snipes ; but, when it was shot, had just knocked down a 
rook, which it was tearing in pieces. I cannot make it 
answer to any of our English hawks ; neither could I find 
any like it at the curious exhibition of stuffed birds in 
Spring Gardens. I found it nailed up to the end of a 
barn, wdiich is the countryman's museum."' 
In the next letter to Pennant 2 he says: "It will not 
be without impatience that I shall wait for your thoughts 
with regard to the Falco. As to its weight, breadth, etc., 
I wish I had set them down at the time ; but to the best 
of my remembrance it weighed two pounds and eight 
ounces, and measured from wing to wing 38 inches. Its 
cere and feet were yellow, and the circles of its eyelids a 
bright yellow. As it had been killed some days, and the 
eyes were sunk, I could make no good observations on the 
colour of the pupils and the irides." 
Pennant described this specimen in his " Zoology " 
under the Peregrine Falcon, word for word as Gilbert 
White wrote, but with this addition : " The whole under 
side of the body was of a deep dirty yellow, but the black 
bars were the same as in that above described." He 
evidently considered it uncommon. ^ 
' Letter x. to Pennant. August 4th, 1767. 
^ Letter xi. to Pennant. Selborne. Sept. 9th, 1767. 
3 Letter xii. to Pennant. Nov. 4th, 1767. 
