. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . y defined as regarding preceding form—at least western coast and probablv northern coast of Olympic peninsula. Authorities.—FaIco iiic/iicrps. Cassin, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. 1858. p. 8(part). C&S. Rh. Specimens.—Prov. IT would lie imp(^ssible to adjudicate the l)Oundaries between F. f>. aiiatiiiiiand F. p pcalci without killing every falcon in western Washington; and this,however much yve should earn the gratitude of the water foyvl. yye do not feelprepared to do. Suff
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . y defined as regarding preceding form—at least western coast and probablv northern coast of Olympic peninsula. Authorities.—FaIco iiic/iicrps. Cassin, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. 1858. p. 8(part). C&S. Rh. Specimens.—Prov. IT would lie imp(^ssible to adjudicate the l)Oundaries between F. f>. aiiatiiiiiand F. p pcalci without killing every falcon in western Washington; and this,however much yve should earn the gratitude of the water foyvl. yye do not feelprepared to do. Suffice it to say, that pcalci is, on theory, a saturated form. 53 2 THE IEALE FALCON. a lita\ ilv i-(iliir(.(l hinl. wIiunc pluniaj^c is ihc result nf racial centuries spent ina regii)n of heavx rainfall, it iiui;lit, llierefdre, to occur along the cliffs andislands of our western coast, where the annual rainfall ranges upward of alunidred inches, toijpers s])ecintens taken at Shoahvater Bay in 1854, arcrated as pcaici; and a female taken Ijy myself on Carroll Islet, June 22. 1907, suijports the Ihese grim deaths reartheir young upon the cliffsof the Olympiades, choosingfor the purpose some inilinedcranny or ledge mi(hva\ ofan inaccessihle preci])\- show great attachmentfor a given locality, whichreally, because of their ])res-ence, takes on something otthe distinction of a baronialestate: and they are valiantin defense of their site shown in I lie cuthas been occuiiied for \-earsb\- a ]iair of Kahliikihulos,as the Quillayutes call theseFalcons, and in 1907 the\-oung were haiclieil ,-ihonlJune First. C)ii Carroll Islet we tounda single full-grown chick,]irobably the runt of ascattered brood, and judgedthat he must ha\e brokenshell by the first of was in charge of twoverv solicitous parents, who guarded his e\er_\- movement and ]>iiblishedscreaming bulletins of our —an attention which, by the way, began topall u])on our sense
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