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of five out of the seven having been verified by dissection (vide Ibis, 1882, pp. 312, 

 438) :— 



in. in. 



Wine 11-10 to 12 



Tarsus 1-50 to 1-80 



Middle toe s. 2« 1-70 to 1-80 



Added to which, F. babylonictis has never been detected anywhere to the west of the 

 Asiatic continent, except in the case of a single supposed, but not very strongly authen- 

 ticated, Abyssinian specimen in the Norwich Museum, whereas the chief stronghold of 

 F. harhanis is Northern Africa, from Egypt to Morocco. 



^ The Falcon described at p. 2(J4 of this article was doubtfully referred by Dr. Finsch 

 to F. barbarns, and more positively by myself in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' lor 1871, p. 147. In this I was wrong; the bird is now in the collection of 

 Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, who has kindly allowed me to re-examine it, and I am 

 satisfied that it is, in reality, a young male of F. tanyjyterus. 



^ Included by Mr. Sharpe and by many other authors in the genus Falco. 



2 One of these specimens was obtained by Mr. Wliitely, of Woolwich, who informed 

 me that it and another example of this species (which I also saw) formed part of a 

 collection of skins made by an artillei-yman stationed at Tonghoo, a locality, which, if 

 no mistake has occurred as regards these specimens, is, I believe, a new one for this 

 species. 



