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FALCO PEREGRINUS. 
kind, as appears by a letter extant in Gloddaotli librarV> 
from tbo lord treasurer Burleig-li, to an ancestor of 
Itoe'cr Mostyn, in ndiicb bis lordship thanks him ^ 
present of a fine cast of hanks, taken on those roi'k'; 
yvhich belonij to the family. They are also vi’iJ' 
common in the nortli of Scotland ; and are sonietimf ' 
trained for falconry, by some few frentlemen n ho s*' 
take delight in this amusement, in that part of 
Britain. Their fiight is amazingly rapid ; one that 
reclaimed by a gentleman in the shire of AngiiSi 
county on the east side of Scotland, eloped frmn 
master n ith tn-o heavy bells attached to each foot, 
the 24th of Se|itember, 1772, and ntis killed in 
morning of the 26th, near Mostyn, Flintshire.”* 
The same naturalist in another place observes, th'** 
“ the American species is tnrf/er than the European'^ 
They are subject to vary. The black falcon, and tb« 
.spotted falcon of Edivards, are of this kind; ca^'b 
jireserves a specific mark, in the blai'k stroke Tvbi<'b 
drops from beneath the eyes, down towards the neck- 
“ inhabits different jiarts of NorIb America, ft®*^ 
Hudson’s Bay, as low as Carolina; in Asia, is'fouU® 
on the highest ])arts of the Uralian and Siberian chaii'’ 
wanders in summer to the very Arctic circh- ; is comiiK*" 
in Kamtschatka,” J 
In the breeding season, the duck han k retires to 
recesses of the gloomy cedar swamps, on the tall frC® 
of which it constructs its nest, and rears its voiU'^ 
secure from all molestation. In those wilds 'whi<'b 
present obstacles almost insuperable to the foot of n)i>"' 
the screams of this bird, occasionally niimrled n ith tb** 
hoarse tones of the heron, and the hooting of the erci** 
horned on 1, echoing through th(( dreary solitude .arous® 
in the imagination all the frightful iunigery of dosob*' 
^ JRrifhh Zoology, 
f If wc wern to adopt the mode of philosophlzhiff of the 
Count (ie Jhifton, we sliould infer that the European species i^ ^ 
^^rietij of oor more, generovs race, degeneruted hi/ the influence 
food and climate f 
^ -Arctic Zoology. 
