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 8!i. Falco feldeggi. 



FdkufeUkggi Schl. ; Hawker, Ihis 18'JH, p. 374. 

 ti—h. J ? imm. Wadi Saghir, Lahej. SeptBUiber 1st, 18a9. 



[ ? Bill slate ; cere and skin roimil eye slate-grey ; feet vory light greenish 

 grey. 



Both this and the previous species are not nucommon in the various wadis 

 near Lahej, but thoy were never met with in the Ahiau Country. They were usually 

 found in pairs. 



Most of our specimens were obtained at the cave where we obtained the smaller 

 Fruit-bats. When any one entered the cave numbers of Bats at once flew out, and 

 were promptly pounced on by one or other of these Falcons. On several iiccasions 

 we saw Falcons hawking at dusk, and I think tliey were in search of Bats. — 

 A. B. P.] 



'.'". Cerchneis tinnunculus. 



Cn-i-hiieis tbiimnaihis (Linn.) : Sharpe, Git. JJ. Brit. Mus. i. p. 425 (1874). 

 Tinmmculus nliiuturim (Daud.) ; Yerbury, Iljis 189^, p. 16. 



(i—b. cJ J ad. Lahej. September 7th and 8th. 



c—d. cJ J ad. Al Khaur, Wadi Hassan, Abian Country. October 2nd. 



[(? Iris black ; bill greyish yellow, gape orange ; legs orange. 



IJare in the low country, but not uncommon amongst the Abian hills. — A. B. P.] 



'•'1. Milvus segyptius. 



Milnis mgyptms (Gmel.) ; Yerbury, Ibis 1896, p. 16. 

 n — b. Imm. Lahej. August 25th. 



Young birds have the culmen entirely black. One of the spiicimens shot by 

 myself at iShaik Othman has ,tlie bill yellow, the terminal part of the culmen 

 blackish. 



[Egyirtian Kites were extremely numerous around the town of Lahej, particularly 

 near our quarters, the bodies of the birds we threw out being the attraction. I do 

 not think they are quite as bold here as the Kites in British Central Africa. On 

 the Ruo River in B. C. Africa I lost more than one specimen, a Kite shooting past 

 me as I wiilked towards a dead bird, and taking it before my eyes. 



Among the Bedouins of Dethina and further to the north-east, where lances are 

 used, the following plan for the destruction of Kites is sometimes emjiloyed. A 

 long sharp lance or lance tiji is fixed in a recess among mimosa bushes, and on it a 

 piece of meat is fixied, so that a Kite stooinng at tlic meat either transfixes itself or 

 is so much cut as to be easily cauglit or killed.- A. 1!. P.] 



92. Elanus coeruleus. 



KlnniiK rwruliii.^ (Desf.) ; Yerbury, Jliis 189G, p. 15. 

 ". J *'!■ Shaka, N, of Lahej. August 30th. 



[Hare.- A. B. P.] • 



* Ealiaetas lencogaster. 

 JltiliaHtun fcurof/nitttr (Uiiit-l) : BHrn'-s, ILtn IS'Xi, p. ift;. 

 Barnes reports having .seen wiiat he believed tu be .in imm;itin-e bird uf this specie.s. I entirely agree 

 wilh t'oluncl Yerbury in thinking that it is most improbaljle lliat the Wliite-bellicd Sea-Kagle occurs 

 near Aden. 



