+- PEREGRINE Peregrine Falcon, Gen. Sjm. i. p. 73. N" 5z.— Ara. Zool. N° 97;
H I S bird breeds ip fome high rocks not far from Giljland, in
Cumberland ■, alfo in fome o f the mountains about Kefwick.
A female, killed May 1781, weighed thirty-fix ounces and a quarter,
was nineteen inches in length, and forty-two in breadth. Is
very deftruffive to game : near the neft were found the remains of
Moor-game, Partridges, Plovers, See. Is very noify and clamorous.
The young in the neft were three in number, and the male fed them
for a week or ten days after the female was killed *.
The Peregrine Falcon is alio common on the continent o f Europe
in fummer; is frequent in Kamtfchatka •, wanders in fummer
to the very Arttic circle, but returns to the fouth in winter, Inhabits
alfo America, from Carolina to Hudjon’s Bay, where it is o f a
1’atger fize : at the laft place known by the name o f Papana
few Kay cake: it varies extremely at different periods-of age f.-
54- 1 +- ROUGH-
LEGGED. F.
Rough-legged Falcon, Gen. Syx. i. p. 73. N° 54_Ara.Zool. N»92.
V ar. Bird greatly refembling this fpecies, and which l am inclined
to think a variety, is in my colledtion :-it meafures one foot
ten inches, and differs chiefly in the tail, the ground of which is a
cream-coloured white j near the tip is a bar of brown above art
inch-in breadth,; above that, afecond of about half an inch broad;
and above thefe, each feather has a fpot upon it in the middle,
mimicking, when fpread, a third bar; beftdes which, the two
* Dr. Heyjham. *
■ f It is not improbable but my 1^49. -Var. F,. and F. may prove the fame
birds.— Var. E.Is in my own collection ; it is certainly greatly like the Peregrine.
F. but is a much larger bird.
outerouter
feathers on each fide are marked with a few irregular fpots
o f brown, almoft the whole of their length, on the outer webs.
The above was prefented to me by the Rev. Dr. Wilgrcfs, of
Eltham, who ftiot it in Suffolk. I received, on another occafion-,
from the fame gentleman, a fecond, which differed in being o f a
larger fize, and having a greater proportion o f brown in the tail.
Placentia Falcon, Gen. Sjti. i. p. 76. N° 57,
Bay Falcon, Gen.lSyn. i. p. 54. N° 34. Var. A.
Chocolate F.' Arft. Zool. N° 94.
~|~ E N G T H twenty-feven inches. Bill blacks cere yellow:
the feathers of the head, neck, and bread:, brown, with the
edges reddilh white: back and wing coverts brown, edged with
pale rufous : the under part o f the bird o f a fine deep chocolate-
brown j acrofs the bread nearly white; between the legs cream-
colour : thighs fine tawny yellow, ftreaked with chocolate; the
feathers very long : the quills are o f a deep brown ; the firft five
are, for two-thirds from the bafe, quite white j the others the
fame, but the white marked with irregular bars of brown : the
upper tail coverts white, with a large chocolate fpot at the tip of
each feather : the tail deep chocolate ; bafe o f the feathers yel-
lowifh whites the end o f each of a deeper chocolate than the reft
o f the feathers the very tip and the lhafts of.a dirty white : the
wings and tail nearly of equal lengths : the legs are feathered to
the toes; the laft are of a greeniih yellow : claws black, large,
and hooked.
The above is defcribed from a fpecimen in my own colledtion.
It feems a larger bird than that from which Mr, Pennant took his
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