GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
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those of the Bald Eagle, in the swamps wherein it is said to breed. 
We have therefore taken the liberty of changing its English name 
for one which will at once express a characteristic designation, or 
which will indicate the species without the labour of investigation.* 
“ This species,” says Pennant, “ breeds on the rocks of Llan- 
didno, in Caernarvonshire, Wales. That promontory has been 
long famed for producing a generous kind, as appears by a letter 
extant in Gloddaeth library, from the lord treasurer Burleigh to 
an ancestor of Sir Roger Mostyn, in which his lordship thanks 
him for a present of a fine cast of Hawks taken on those rocks, 
which belong to the family. They are also very common in the 
north of Scotland; and are sometimes trained for falconry by 
some few gentlemen who still take delight in this amusement in 
that part of Great Britain. Their flight is amazing rapid ; one 
that was reclaimed by a gentleman in the Shire of Angus, a county 
on the east side of Scotland, eloped from its master with two 
heavy bells attached to each foot, on the twenty-fourth of Septem- 
ber, 1772, and was killed in the morning of the twenty-sixth, near 
Mostyn, riintshire.”f 
The same naturalist in another place observes, that “ the 
American species is larger than the European.^ They are subject 
to vary. The Black Falcon, and the Spotted Falcon, of Edwards 
are of this kind; each preserves a specific mark, in the black 
stroke which drops from beneath the eyes, down towards the neck. 
“ Inhabits diflerent parts of North America, from Hudson’s 
Bay as low as Carolina. In Asia, is found on the highest parts of 
the Uralian and Siberian chain. Wanders in summer to the very 
Arctic circle. Is common in Kamtschatka. ^ 
* “ Specific names, to be perfect, ought to express some peculiarity, common to no other 
of the genus.” Am. Orn. i, p. 65. 
t British Zoology. , ,, • 
5 If we were to adopt the mode of philosophizing of the Count de Bufibn, we should m- 
fer that the European species is « variety of our more generous race, degenerated by the tnfiu- 
enee of food and climate ! ^ Arctic Zoology. 
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