PONDS, PADDOCKS, AND AVIARIES 8i 



a long distance from Tangier to get any good shooting. 

 Our Vice-Consul at Saffi knows something about falconry, 

 and has many Arab falconer friends. From what he tells 

 me, it seems that the Arabs only train two species of 

 falcon — ' Nebli,' which I take to be the typical peregrine, 

 and ' Buhari,' which must, I think, be F. punicus, not 

 F. barbarus. I cannot make out that he is acquainted 

 either with barbarus or the lanner {^F. fddeggi), both of 

 which are common and breed in Morocco. 



" My own chief requirements in Morocco are the 

 marsh owl {Phasmoptynx capensis) and the great horned 

 owl (^Bubo ascalaphus) and, above all, the francolin {bical- 

 caratus), in any numbers, alive. I have for some time 

 been working hard to try and get some of these latter 

 for the Comte de Paris, to turn down in his cotos in 

 Andalucia, where I am sure that they would do well." ' 



"July iqth, 1892. 



" The most interesting events in my live-stock 

 collection have been the birth of a Galago demidoffi* about 

 two months ago, doing well ; the laying of eggs by 

 some Australian peewits {Sarciophorus pectoralis), ditto 

 by Madagascar bush-quails {Turnix nigricollis) ; the nesting 

 of a pair of night herons, several eggs laid ; the death 

 of many of my nutcrackers and of the laurel pigeon 

 that you sent me last. (Female by dissection.) 



1 To E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Esq. 

 * A little lemuroid animal. 



