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times it was probably more numerous in Eg3^pt and Nubia than it is nowadays. 

 The Triug Museum has, at i)rosent, the following specimens : 



(1) '? ad. Manfalut, Middle Egypt, 20.x. 1851, A. E. Brehm coll. A magnifi- 

 cent specimen with the cheek-stripe very faintly marked ! Upperside pale, very 

 " typical "' tam/pterus. 



(2) ? ad. Label lost ! A. E. Brehm coll. Upperside almost as dark as in 

 abyssinicus, underside paler. 



(3) (? ad. from the Riocour collection. " D'figypte." This bird had an 

 interesting label on the stand. It is first called " Falco lanarius " ; then is added : 

 " Falco lanarius ffraecua" " identifie a Leide par M. Schlegel." Ou the side of the 

 label is, in P. L. Sclater's handwriting : " true lanarius (J.H.G.), eye ought to 

 be hazel." This last remark because the birJ-stufl'er had inserted e3'es with 

 a yellow iris ! 



The name lanarius Linne has lieen used sometimes for the Nubian Lanuer, 

 sometimes and more often for the Saker {F. cherru/j). (Schlegel himself was not 

 sure about his graecus, a name under which he seems to have assembled specimens 

 oi feldeggi and tani/pterus. 



(4) ? ad. Jerusalem, 24. i. 1809. Bacher coll. Bought from Schliiter. 



(5) ? ad., but ajiparently not very aged, Kais, near Tibonk, Palestine, 

 ]3. iii. l'.)12. J. Aharoni coll. This bird is underneath exceptionally heavily 

 spotted, each feather having a dark brown shaft-stripe and a similarly coloured large 

 roundish sjiot near the tip ; there are liardly any cross-bars on tlic flanks. 



(ti) ? juv. Kom Ombo in Nubia. A. E. Brelim coll. Original label lost, but 

 label in C L. Brehm's handwriting, who marked it " Falco Feldcggii, ? prima 

 hieme." 



(7) S juv., El Tabbe, Nubia, 8. ix. 1851. A. E. Brelun coll. The collector had 

 called it " Falco lanarius" and this had been altered by his father into " cercicalis,'^ 

 " tani/pterus," and " biarmicus." 



(8) c? ad., Upper Egypt, 3. iii. 1852. A. E. Brehm coll. Original label hist. 

 Label by (J. L. Brehm, called "Falco biarmicus," and with the note that it was 

 killed with same shot with a paired female ; the latter is probably the specimen 

 niider (2) which has no laliel. 



In the British Museum is a skin from Aden which both Neumann and I 

 considered to belong to this form, also one from Fao, Persian Gulf, collected by 

 Oumming. 



The specimens in the British Museum said to be from Persia are probably 

 wrongly labelled. No collector's name is stated, and they were evidently bought 

 from a dealer by the late B. B. Sharpe. 



There is, however, in the Triiig Museum a s])ocinieu from Sarepta, on which I 

 have commented in 1%. pal. Fauna, ii. p. 1U56. If the bird actually came from 

 Sarepta it must have been astray. The date (May) is probably wrong. 



4. Falco biarmicus erlangeri Kleinschm. 



Fako Ifici-o/alco erltiiii/eri Kleiaschmidt, Aqiiila viii, p. 33 (1901 — Tunisia and Tanger in North 

 Marocco). (Type : ? ad. Djebel Sidi-AIi-ben-Aoun, in Kleinschmidt's Collection, collected 

 by Carlo von Erianger). 



Falco llut-nfuko txclvisii Kleinschmidt, Falco 1907, p. 103 (Tanger in North Marocco). 



This form is so closely allied to F. b. tani/pterus that it will not be sciiarated 

 by many ornithologists, There is, however, no donbt that it is, on the whole, 



