132 PEREGRINE FALCON 
and another man, who picked it up, when the Falcon 
swooped down and struck it out of his hand!’ Was it the 
same bird which was seen at all the above localities ? 
Of thirty-one Irish occurrences recorded by Ussher and 
Warren, one took place in Antrim (Rathlin) and nine in 
Donegal (three of the latter in the winter 1883-84, with 
five in other parts of Ireland). In Ireland it has been 
most frequently seen in April. There seem to be no 
records for Galloway. In 1865 one was captured in the 
port of Liverpool, and another obtained in the same year 
in Westmoreland. It is doubtless a straggler to all 
the Scottish island groups, but there is much confusion 
as to the identity of the specimens which have been taken 
there. 
FALCO PEREGRINUS, Tunstall. 
PEREGRINE FALCON. 
Roya Fatcon, Fatcon Hawk. Manx (see under Accipiter 
nisus). 
In 1406 the Kingdom of Man with all its rights was 
granted to Sir John Stanley, on the service of rendering 
two Falcons on paying homage, and two Falcons to each 
future king of England on his coronation day ;* this pre- 
sentation, according to Mr. Kermode, being last made by 
the Duke of Athol to George Iv. in 1821. Mr. C. Roeder 
(Isle of Man Examiner, 1st November 1902) quotes from the 
1 Manx Soc., vol. vii. p. 241. ‘p. Homagium, Ligeum, et p. Servicit 
reddendi nob duos falcones semel tantum videlt immediate post Homagiti 
hujusmodi scfii, ac reddendi Heredibz nis Regibz AngI duos Falcones, Diebz 
Goronacionum eordem Heredum nio¥ p. ombz alijs Servitijs, Consuetudinibz, et 
Demandis.’ 
