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 Visit me at: http://katdocsworld.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]