(5 PEREGRINE FALCON. 
leg. Here it would be impossible for the parents when bringing food to avoid the traps which we set all round. 
The bones and feathers scattered about indicated that Grouse and Golden Plover had furnished the greater 
part of the prey supplied; there was also the carcase of a Ptarmigan much decomposed. After leaving 
the neighbourhood for a few hours, we returned just as evening was closing in, and found the female captured 
by both feet. The traps were then reset ; but although they were regularly attended and the place was 
carefully watched for the two following days, not a sign of the male was observed. I lie young bird was kept 
alive on trout fresh caught from the loch at the foot of the hill; and on this it thrived well. On the third 
day I had resolved to give up the attempt, as I imagined the male had been scared from the spot ; however, on 
visiting the ledge I discovered he was taken. The poor bird had brought an unfledged duckling as food ; and 
with this lie had sprung the first trap ; then, in his vain endeavours to drag both duckling and trap to the young 
one, he had been captured in the second. 
