a PERBQBUTE FALCON.
leg. ilrre it would be impossible for the parents when bringing bod to avoid the traps whieh we set all round.
The hours and feathers scattered about indicated that Grouse and Golden Plover had furnished the greater
part of the prey supplied ; there was also the carcase of a Ptarmigan much decomposed. After leaving
the neighbourhood for a few hours, we returned just as evening was closing in, and fouad the female captured
by both Tect. The traps were then reset; but although they were regularly attended and the place was
carefully watched Tor the two following days, not a sign of the male was observed. The young bird was kept
alive on trout fresh caught from the loch at the foot of the hill; and on this it thrived well. On the third
day I had resolved to give up the attempt, as 1 imagined the male had been seared from the spot ; however, on
visiting the ledge I discovered he was taken. The poor bird had brought an unfledged duckling as food; and
with this he bad sprung the first trap; then, iu his vain endeavours to drag both duckling and trap to the young
one, he bad been captured in the second.