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Identifier: birdsofbritishis00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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PEREGRIXE FALCON. 333 and the legs less yellow. From the adult Gyr-Falcon theIceland may always be told bv its paler, black-streaked head.Male: Length, 21 ins. Wing, 14*5 ins. Tarsus, 275 ins.Female ; Length, 23 ins. Wing, 16 ins. Tarsus, 3*0 ins. Peregrine Falcon. Faico peregrinus Tunstall. The handsome Peregrine (Plate 146) is the largest and mostpowerful of our resident falcons, and is commoner, especiallyround our rocky coasts, than is usually supposed. In spiteof persecution and the repeated burning of nests by farmers,it holds its own. Some closely allied form of Peregrine isfound in most parts of the world, and our race breeds innorthern and central Europe and is partially migratory, manywintering in Africa. Birds of passage are not uncommon inBritain, especially on the east coast, where they travel with anddepend upon other migrants. The North American Duck-Hawk, Falco peregrinus anatiun Bonap,, has been twicerecognised as a visitor, in Leicestershire in 1891 and Lincolnin 191

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