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which may now be likened to shrieks of anger or 
despair. Their patience apparently exhausted, 
a sailing flight is made to some neighbouring 
pinnacle, where more plaintive cries are from 
time to time uttered, or the male will, far out of 
gun-shot above, survey the scene. The least 
movement or noise of the intruding party, will 
again bring both parents to the spot, with, if 
possible, a more rapid passing flight and louder 
cries. In such situations I have never found it 
difficult to procure at least one bird, and some- 
times both, and in either case have always, 
in the following season, found the cliff again 
tenanted, and the nest commonly placed on 
the same spot. A figure of the egg is given 
plate II. fig. 1. 
The Peregrine is a bird of wide distribution, 
though a constant native only of the wildest and 
most mountainous districts ; thus, though it has 
been found in America, it is of more rare occur- 
rence than the Hawks, which delight in wooded 
tracts, and is scarce, therefore, in the wooded parts 
of the fur countries.* It is migratory in Loui- 
siana, and seldom occurs in the middle and 
southern States, while, in some parts of the United 
States, Audubon thinks they may breed ; and tne 
Falls of Niagara, mentioned as one station, woina 
Faun. Bor. Am. 11. p. J 4 . 
