136 PEREGRINE FALCON 
its lookout, and a feeding place which is strewn with 
feathers of victims. | 
We are not aware that the Peregrine has ever nested 
inland in Man. 
It seems strange that (in spite of modern ‘ Falcon Cliffs, 
‘Falcons’ Nests, etc.) the residence at certain spots of this 
finest of Manx birds does not seem to have left any impres- 
sion on our place-names. 
As remarked by Mr. Kermode, a pair of Ravens is usually 
(he says always) found nesting in close proximity to the 
Peregrine, but the number of Ravens’ eyries is in the Isle 
of Man somewhat in excess of those of Falcons. The latter 
constantly attack the former, but I have not seen, nor heard 
of, these skirmishes ending seriously. 
Mr. Bacon says that he has seen the Peregrine strike 
ineffectually at a Curlew, and Mr. Kermode relates that 
Mr. Kelly, of Bride, told him that he had seen it attack a 
Heron, which, however, after ‘a long time, succeeded in 
transfixing the Falcon with his beak, and Kelly picked up 
the dead bird’ (Y. LZ. I, iii. 530). Mr. T. Haddon once 
saw it strike down and carry off a Hooded Crow. At its 
nesting haunts, though many species of birds are doubtless 
preyed upon, Jackdaws seem, from the remains found in 
the neighbourhood, to be its favourite quarry. Mr. Kermode 
adds Rabbits, and has known newly fledged Ravens to be 
given to the young at Maughold. Mr. Graves has noted 
remains of Blackbird, Starling, Rook, Domestic Pigeon, 
Jackdaw, Partridge, and Rabbit, but never any of sea- 
birds; I have, however, found feathers of an immature 
Herring Gull. 
Mr. Graves picked up on a nesting ledge a pellet with 
the hind claw of a Jackdaw or Rook projecting from its 
side in a way that looked highly dangerous. Mr. Crellin 
says, that having lost a wounded Grouse on Ballaugh 
