Mr. Eyton on the Fauna of Shropshire. 285 apicem mucronatis pallidis carina viridi trinervi, involuero diphyllo altero capitulum suba3quante, foliis subulatis brevibus culmoque pubescentibus, vaginis ore barbatis, caryopsi obovato-trigona laeviuscula. Isolepidi bar-bates similis, difFerre videtur pubescentia et foliis crassioribus, cet. — Madras, Mr. Griffith. XXXII. — An Attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales. By T. C. Eyton, Esq. [Continued from Mag. of Zool. and Bot., vol. ii. p. 542.] No. II. Aves. Falco peregrinus, Ray. (Peregrine Falcon.) Not an uncommon bird on the Welsh coast, rearing its young on shelves of rock over-hanging the sea. I have never observed nests nearer to one another than two miles. Two or three specimens have occurred in Shrop-shire. A fine old bird was this winter (1837) procured by John Rocke, Esq., near Clungurford. I have several times succeeded in training the young bird (the lanner of Fleming and Pennant,) for hawking pigeons and partridges, and found the process much easier than I could have supposed from the accounts of it given in the older books on the subject ; indeed, excepting the treatise by Sir John Sebright, there is not more humbug contained in any description of books than in those on hawking. The trachea of the Peregrine Falcon is furnished with two pairs of muscles of voice, similar to those described by Mr. Yarrell in the Linnsean Transactions to exist in the Indian crowned pigeon. Falco Subbuteo, Ray. (Hobby.) Several specimens have occurred near the Stretton hills in Shropshire : all that I have seen have been in the young state of plumage. Falco Msalon, Ray. (Merlin.) Rare in Shropshire, but breeds not uncommonly in the neighbourhood of Cader Icjris, where the young are generally supposed to be of a different species, and is called the stone Falcon. Falco Tinnunculus, Ray. (Kestrel.) Common. The kestrel is generally supposed to be the most common of the British hawks ; but in the neighbourhood of Eyton, and I believe that most of the gamekeepers in Shropshire will say the same, the sparrow-hawk is decidedly the most common. On the Welsh coast, on the contrary, I have obtained in general about four specimens of the kestrel for one of the sparrow-hawk. Falco (Menofalco, Cuv.) Islandicus, Linn. (Gyr Falcon.) One of
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