GEA'US2. FALCO. FALCONS. 
SPECIES I. F. PEREGRINUS. 
GREAT-FOOTED HAWK. 
[Plate LXXVI.— Female.] 
Falco peregrinus, Gmel. Syst. i, p. 272, 88. — Briss. i, p. 341, 6, 
and Var, A, — Ind. Orn. p. 33, JVo. 72. — Falco Barbarus, Linn. 
Syst.ed. 10, tom. i,p.88, JVo. 6. — Gmel. iSyst. i,^. 272, 8. — Ind. 
Orn.p, 33, JyTo. 71. — Falco hornotinus, Buiss. i, p. 324, A. Falco 
niger. Id. p. 327, E. Falco maculatus. Id. p. 329, F. — Pere- 
grine Falcon, Lath. Syn. i, p. 73, JSTo. 52. Id. supl. p. 1 8. — 
Penn. Brit. Zool. J^To. 48, pi. 20. Arct. Zool. •N'o. 97. — Shaw, 
Gen. Zool. vol. \ii,p. 128. — Montagu, Orn. Diet, and Supl, — 
Low, Fauna Orcadensis, p. 150. — Common Falcon, Lxru.Syn. 
I, p. 65, JVo. 49, var. A. p. 67, var. E. p. 68. var. F. — Spotted 
Hawk or Falcon, Edwards, i, pi. 3. Black Hawk or Falcon, 
Id. pi. 4, both from Hudson’s Bay . — Le Lanier, PI. enl, 430, 
old male. Le Faucon noir et passager. Id. 469, young female? 
Le Faucon sors. Id. p. 470, yearling. — Faucon pelerin^ Temm. 
Man. d^Orn.p. 22. — Peale’s Museum, I^o. 386, 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 
accurate 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 
interesting by the wonderful stories which we heard of its ex- 
ploits in fowling, and of its daring enterprise. There was not 
a shooter along the shore but knew it well; and each could re- 
late something of it which bordered on the marvellous. It was 
described as darting, 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 
