104 FALCO BARBARUS. 



[§ 240. 7k-o.— Shetlands, May 1856. 



Two very small eggs, and so abnoniially coloured as to lead to the supposition 

 that the mother must have been diseased. From the same island as that in 

 § 237. They measure only 1-77 in. by 1-51, and 1-84 in. by 1'51 respectively.] 



[§ 241. O^e.— Shetlands, 1857. 



From the same correspondent as the last, but from which of the islands I do 

 not know.] 



[§ 242. One. — Fiskernses, Greenland. Prom Dr. David Walker, 

 R.N., Naturalist to the 'Fox,' R. Y. S. 



This ^^^ was obtained during the celebrated voyage of the * Fox,' imder 

 Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock, R.N, Prof. Reinhardt states his belief 

 ('Ibis,' 1861, p. 5) that "there is no difference between the Peregrine from 

 Greenland and the Eui'opean one." Sir Leopold mentions 0"oy- ' Fox,' p. 197) 

 Peregrine Falcons which were shot at Port Kennedy. These birds I afterwards 

 saw, and one is now in the Noi-wich Museum. They were, to all appearance, 

 specimens of the true Falco peregrinus, not F. anatiim, being small and light- 

 coloured. This egg is a little one, measm-ing but 1'89 in. by 1*54.] 



FALCO BARBARUS, Linn^us. 



BARBARY FALCON. 



§ 243. One. — Kef Boudjato, Eastern Atlas, 20 April, 1857. 

 " Bird shot." From Mr. W. H. Simpson's Collection. 



[This e^^, it appears, was taken in the presence of Mr. 0. Salvin, who shot 

 one of the parent birds. In some excellent remarks on this species in the ' Ibis,' 

 vol. i. pp. 184^189, he states : — " On the 20th of Apiil an Arab reported that 

 he found a nest of ^^ Bournee" in Kef Boudjato, a rock situated no great 

 distance from Kef Laks. I immediately started to the spot, taking with me 

 Mohammed, my gim, and ropes. A successful siege was the result ; and 

 I returned to the tents with three eggs and one of the parent bu-ds,"] 



[§ 244. One. — Kef Boudjato, Eastern Atlas, 18 April, 1857. 

 From Mr. 0. Salvin's Collection. 



Mr. Tristram's party obtained four nests of this species, from two of which 

 a bird was shot. In 1856 he brought home two young ones alive, and in 



