. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. PEREGRINE FALCON, Jo. gentleman who kindly presented it to me. fine adult male specimen shot at ; inter visitor to Essex, rocky cliffs in other parts of England. It certainly does not now breed in any part of Essex, and Mr. Clarke's record of its having bred — pre- sumably in a tree, which is unusual— at Sampford as lately as 1843, is very inter- esting. Most of the specimens met with are immature birds of the year. W. D. King sa3-s (20) that in the district a- round Sudbury it was rare in his time.
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. PEREGRINE FALCON, Jo. gentleman who kindly presented it to me. fine adult male specimen shot at ; inter visitor to Essex, rocky cliffs in other parts of England. It certainly does not now breed in any part of Essex, and Mr. Clarke's record of its having bred — pre- sumably in a tree, which is unusual— at Sampford as lately as 1843, is very inter- esting. Most of the specimens met with are immature birds of the year. W. D. King sa3-s (20) that in the district a- round Sudbury it was rare in his time. He adds :— " In the winter of 1835-6, a splendid female was shot in a meadow close to our town by a The following winter, I received a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Christy, Miller, b. 1861. Chelmsford, E. Durrant & Co. ; [etc. , etc. ]
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