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GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
FJILCO PEMEGRINUS. 
[Plate LXXVI.— Female.] 
Falco peregrinuSy Gmel* SysU 1, p, 272, 88. — Briss. \^p» 341, 6, andVar, A, — Ind, Orn, 
p. 33, No. 72. — Falco Barharusy Lin. Syst. ed. 10, tom. l,/>. 88, No, 6.— Gmel. SysU 
1, p. 272, 8. — Ind. Om. p. 33, No, 71. — Falco kornotinusy Briss. 1, p, 324, A, Falco 
nigefy Id. p, 327, E. Falco maculatusy Id. p, 329, F. — Peregrine Falcony Lath. Syn, 
\y p. 73, No. 52, Id. sup. p, 18. — Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 48, pi. 20. Arct, Zool. No. 
97. — Shaw, Gen, Zoohvol. 7yp. 128.--Montagu, Om, Die, and Sup. — Low, Fauna 
Orcadenshy p. 150. — Common Falcony Lath, Syn, 1, p. 65, No. 49, var, A. p. 67, var, 
E. p. 68. var, F. — Spotted Hawk or Falcony Edwards, 1, pi. 3. Black Hawk or FaU 
cony Id. pi. 4, both from Hudsm^s Bay. — Le Laniery PL enl. 430, old male. Le Fau- 
con noir et passageTy Id. 469, young female? Le Faucon sorsy Id. p. 470, yearling , — 
Faucon p'^leritiy Temm, Man. d'Om, p. 22. — Peale’s Museumy No. ^Z^y female, 
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 ac- 
curate 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 in- 
teresting 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 dart- 
ing with the rapidity of an arrow upon the ducks when on the wing, 
and striking them down with the projecting bone of its breast. 
Even the Wild Geese were said to be in danger from its attacks, 
it having been known to sacrifice them to its rapacity. 
To behold this hero, the terror of the wild fowl, and the 
wonder of the sportsmen, was the chief object of our wishes. Day 
