I was fascinated by Tom Bain's historic reference to a bird pf prey referred to as a stone-falcon:  "Of other birds of prey, there are to be found here the hawk, the stone-falcon, that remains near the rocks..."  and did a little Google search.  From what I read, Stone falcon is an old British term for Merlin, not Peregrine.  I found it at this site:  http://www.birdforum.net/archive/index.php/t-6640.html along with a number of other out-dated bird names, including Wood Pie, Summer Snipe, and Windhover.

~Kathi Hutton
Clermont County, SW Ohio

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