GKEAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
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In the montli of December, 1815, a solitary individual of this species 
made its appearance in Philadelphia. This visitor, as may be presumed, 
occasioned not a little surprise. It was shot with an air rifle, while 
perched upon a chimney of a large house in Chestnut street. This bird 
was put into my hands for examination ; and from the appearance of 
its plumage, I had reason to conjecture that it had escaped from con- 
finement. 
From Vieillot's figure and description of the Black Vulture, we must 
conclude that he had never seen it, either alive, or in a recent state, 
otherwise he would not have committed the egregious error of repre- 
senting the naked skin of the bill, head and neck, of a blood red, when 
these parts are of a scurfy, black color, resembling the skin of a dirty 
negro.* 
Genus IL FALCO. FALCONS. 
Species I. F. PEREGRINUS. 
GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
[Plate LXXVI. Female.] 
Falco Peregrimis, Gmel. Sijst. i., p. 272, 88.— Briss. i., p. 341, 6, and Var. A. — Ind. 
Orn. p. 33, No. 72. — Falco Barhar us. Linn. Syst. ed. 10, torn i., p. 88, No. 6. — 
Gmel. Syst. i., p. 272, 8. — Ind. Oni. p. 33, No. 7L — Falco hornoiinus, Briss. i., 
p. 324, A. Falco niger, Id. p. 327, E, Falco macnlalns, Id. p. 329, F. — Peregrine 
Falcon, Lath. Syn. i., p. 73, No. 52. Id. suppl. p. 18. — Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 48, 
pi. 20. Arct. Zool. No. 97.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. vii., p. 128. — Montagu, Orn. 
Diet, and Suppl. — Low, Fauna, Orcadensis, p. 150. — Common Falcon, Lath. Syn. 
I., p. 65, No. 49, var. A. p. 67, var. E. p. 68. var. F. — Spotted Hawk or Falcon, 
Edwards, i., pi. 3. Black Hawk or Falcon, Id. pi. 4, both from Hudson's Bay. 
— Le Lanier, PI. enl. 430, old male. Le Favcon noir et passager, Id. 469, young 
female? Le Faucon sors, Id. p. 470, yearling. — Faucon p)Merin, Temm. Man, 
d' Orn. p. 22. 
It is with great pleasure that we are now enabled to give a portrait 
of this celebrated Falcon, drawn of half the size of life, in the best 
manner of our deceased friend ; and engraved by the accurate and 
ingenious Lawson. 
This noble bird had excited our curiosity for a long time. Every 
visit which we made to the coast, was rendered doubly interesting by the 
wonderful stories which we heard of its exploits in fowling, and of its 
daring enterprise. There was not a shooter along the shore but knew 
it well ; and each could relate something of it which bordered on the 
marvellous. It was described as darting, with the rapidity of an arrow, 
* From Mr. Ord'a supplementary volume. 
