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Near Biskra, however, we found a nest on a clifl' in an old raven's nest, and in the 

 Oned N^a in the Mzab country old nests of ravens on the terebinth trees are used, 

 and doubtless the same takes place in the dayats between Laghouat and Ghardaia, 

 where this Falcon still occurs. 



The food consists chiefly of birds, but not entirely, for we found in one shot on 

 the Oued Nca the gizzard and stomach full of remains of the iSpine-tailcd Lizard, 

 Uromastij:. Doubtless Rodents and other small mammals are sometimes taken as 

 well, or else these falcons could not be nsed for hawking hares, and we found in 

 one the jaw of a hedgehog I 



These birds are ajjparently not entirely confined to Africa Blinor, where they 

 are found from the west coast of Marocco to Tunisia, and doubtless also in Tripoli, 

 though no specimens have so far been obtained there. It appears that in southern 

 Spain falcons of the Lanner gronj) lireed on trees, in nests of other raptorial birds, 

 and they would probably belong to this subspecies. It is most desirable that 

 specimens should be procured in Spain during the spring and carefully compared. 

 (Cf. Irby, Orn. Straits Gibraltar, 2nd ed., p. 103, also Jourdain in litt.) 



5. Falco biarmicus feldeggii Schleg. 



Falcn FelddeygU. (doubtless error for feldeqrjii) Schlegel, under plate 8a in Vogel Europas von 

 Susemilil mit Tc.cl rnn Si'h Iri/rl (ahont 184.3 or 1814. The plate appeared doubtless later than 

 plates 8 and 9, as it is printed on different paper, and is not mentioned in the text to the first 

 forty-six plates. It must, however, have appeared before the description in the Ab/ni.nifl'iin/''>i, 

 because it i.s there quoted on p. rt). 



FuUn Fcldr,/,/il Schlegel, Ab!i. (icb. Z.,„l. „. rrnjl. Anal. iii. pp. 2, 3. pi. 10, 11 (about 1844—, 

 Dalmatia, discovered by Feldegg). 



(For .synonyms see VUij. pal. Fauna, pp. 1057, lOyS.) 



Ad., crown dark, up])erside always distinctly barred with greyish pink (in 

 F. h. rrlaiigeri this barring is sometimes very distinct, more often absent) ; under- 

 side nearly always strongly spotted, though in a varying degree; thighs barred 

 across. 



Breeds in Italy and Dalmatia to (ireece, Albania, Montenegro (common), 

 Bulgaria (not numerous), Herzegovina, South Italy, chiefly Calabria, Pnglie, north- 

 wards to Rome, north of the Etruscan mountains apparently only an irregular 

 visitor, but not nesting, Sicily. 



We have, at jiresent, the following specimens in the Tring Jlnseuni : 



1. S ad., Crna Zemlja, North Albania, lo. ii. I'.IOO. L. von Fiihrer coll. 

 Wing 344 mm. 



2. ? ad., Crna Zemlja, 4. xi. 1001 1. L. von Fiihrer coll. Wing 374 mm. 



3. ? ad., (!rna Zemlja, 7. ii. 10110. L. von Fiihrer coll. Wing 3.is mm. 



4. i ad., near Foggia, Puglia, South Italy, 2^. v. lOOT. Wing 323 mm. 

 o. c? ad., Foggia, Puglie, May 1909. Wing 3U7 mm. 



G. S ad., Aviano di Puglia, South Italy, 10. i. 1913. Wing 317 mm. 



7. ? ad., Manfredonia, Puglie, 10. i. 1912. Wing 345 mm. 



8. ¥ ad., Lecce, South Italy, October 1912. Wing 3(>0 ram. 



9. ? ad., San Severo di Puglia, 12. xii. 1912. AViiig 357 mm. ; head, neck, 

 back, and outermost primaries in moult. 



10. ? ad., Anguillara, Sabaria, near Rome, October 1912. Wing 3ii2 mm. 



11. ? ad., Montetiascouc, near Lago di Bolsena, Middle Italy, 29. v. 1906. 

 Wing 358 mm, 



