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PEREGRINE FALCON. 
PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco Peregrinus, Aldrovand.) 
ADULT. 
*Faucon Pelerin, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 22. — FalcoPeregrinus, Lat/i. Ind. Orn. 
1. p. 33. 72 GmeL Syst. 1. p. 272.— Briss. 1. p. 341 Raii, Syn. p. 13. 1.— 
Vigors, Zool. Jour. 2. p. 339 Falco Barbarus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 33, 71. — 
Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 272. — Le Faucon Pelerin, Buff. Ois. 249. t. 16. — Wander- 
Falke, Bechst. Tasschenb, Deut. p. 33. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 55. — 
Le Lanier, Biff. pi. Enl. 430. adult male Peregrine Falcon, Br. Zool. 1. No. 
48. t. 8 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 97.— Lath. Syn. 1. p. 73 lb. Supp. p. 18 — 
Lewin’sBv. Birds, 1. t. 12. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Ib. Supp. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 
12. — Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 128. — Bewick’s Supp. Br. Birds. — Flem. Br. Anim, p. 
49. — Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 128. — Tartarian Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 73. A. — Spot- 
ted Falcon, Ib. p. 68. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 2. — Barbary Falcon, Will. (Angl.) 
p. 81. — Lath, Syn. 1. p. 72. — ^-Great Foot Hawk, WUs. Am. Orn. 1. p. 36. 
YOUNG. 
Falco communis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 270. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 30. t. 67. — Briss. 
1. p. 321 — Falco Hornotinus, Briss. 1. p. 324. A. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 270. — 
Faucon Sors, Buff. Ois. 1. 1. 15 Ib. pi. Enl. 470. — Yearling Falcon, Lath. 
Syn. 1. p. 65..^ — Falco gibbosus, Briss. 1. p. 324. B. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 270. — 
Le Faucon Haggard, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 254 Haggard Falcon, Will. (Angl.) p. 
88. — Lath. Syn. 1. p. 66. — Black Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 67 Edw. t. 4.— - 
Red Falcon. Lath. Syn. 1. p. 69 Red Indian Falcon, Will. (Angl.) p. 81. t. 
9.— ...Lath. Syn. 1. p. 69. — Selby, pi. 15 and 15*. p. 37.* 
This beautiful species is about sixteen inches and a half in length ; 
breadth about thirty-seven. The bill is bluish black, at the base yel- 
lowish ; gape and cere yellow ; irides dusky : a large space round the 
eye bare of feathers, pale yellow. The whole upper parts of the 
plumage dusky black, with a cinereous dash ; the shafts of the feathers 
black, and the margins slightly edged with ferruginous browm ; the fore- 
head pale ; back and sides of the neck mixed with yellowish white ; 
behind the eye a black patch ; from the corner of the mouth a broad 
black streak pointing downwards ; chin ferruginous white ; the whole 
under parts the same, with a broad streak of dusky black down the 
shafts, less conspicuous on the throat and vent : under and upper tail- 
coverts barred with dusky and ferruginous white, the former dashed 
with cinereous; quill feathers, dusky black, dashed with cinereous, the 
inner webs with transverse oblong spots of ferruginous white ; the 
under coverts of the wings alternately barred black and white ; tail 
dusky black, dashed with cinereous, with eight pale ferruginous bars, 
least conspicuous on the outer webs of the exterior feathers ; one of the 
bars constitutes the extremity. 
The bill and talons of this species are remarkably strong, the former 
being much hooked, and furnished with a tooth-like process on each side 
of the upper mandible near the lip, and a corresponding notch in the 
under mandible, which enables it to cut and tear its prey with greater 
ease. The wings are very pointed, the second feather being the longest, 
the first not much inferior, and the tail short, so that the wings, when 
closed, reach very near the end. The legs short, strong, and pale yel- 
