. The sportsman's British bird book . .From the middle of the seventeenth century up to the present dayoccasional statements of the capture of jjelicans in the British Islandshave been published (one such record having been made in 1905).There is, however, little doubt that all such instances refer to birdsescaped from captivity ; and there is no evidence that pelicans haveever been natives of this country since the prehistoric ei)och, fromdcjiosits of which date in Cambridgeshire and Somersetshire theirremains have been HE ROWLAND RO &TUO1O5 fJANNKT. PEREGRINE FALCON -) r
. The sportsman's British bird book . .From the middle of the seventeenth century up to the present dayoccasional statements of the capture of jjelicans in the British Islandshave been published (one such record having been made in 1905).There is, however, little doubt that all such instances refer to birdsescaped from captivity ; and there is no evidence that pelicans haveever been natives of this country since the prehistoric ei)och, fromdcjiosits of which date in Cambridgeshire and Somersetshire theirremains have been HE ROWLAND RO &TUO1O5 fJANNKT. PEREGRINE FALCON -) r ^ j5 J Peregrine Falcon ^^ old-time writers the birds-of-prey, inclusive of(Falco peregrinus). falcons, eagles, and vultures on the one hand, andof owls on the other, were by common consentplaced at the head of the class Aves, as were the beasts of prey atthe head of the Mammalia ; the post of honour being assigned in theone case to the golden eagle and in the other to the lion. This view is,however, in great part a misconception ; the gannet being just ashighly specialised and adapted for its own particular mode of life asis the golden eagle or the peregrinefalcon for its line of existence, andto say that one is higher than theother is thus incorrect. Moreover,the diurnal birds-of-prey, such as fal-cons, eagles, and vultures, have littlein common with owls, and the formerare now alone included in the orderAccipitres, whose nearest affinitiesare probably with the Steganopodes,which have just been this gro
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