42 Capt. G. E. Shelley on Egrjptian Ornitholuyy. 



16. Falco saker, Schl. Saker Falcou. 



By no means abundant. I only met with it twice in Egj^pt, 

 and shot the specimen on each occasion. 



17. Falco subbuteo, L. Hobby. 



Dr. Heuglin (Ibis, I860, p. 408j mentions that he killed an 

 old bird of this species at Sioot in June 1852, and believes that 

 it is to be found there all the year through. I have no other 

 evidence for including this bird in my Egyptian list. 



18. Falco eleonor^. Gene. Eleonora Falcon. 



Dr. Heuglin (Ibis, i860, p. 408) writes of this bird, '' Rare, 

 and only as a migratory bird in Nubia." It has no other claims 

 that I know of to a place in the present list. 



19. Falco concolor, Temm. 



Dr. Heuglin says (Ibis, 1860, p. 409), in speaking of this 

 bird under the name of F. horus (Heugl.), " I have rarely ob- 

 served, this species in the rocky deserts of Egypt and Nubia. 

 A. Brehm has described a young specimen of this species killed 

 by myself in August 1852 near the so-called 'Fossil Forest,' at 

 the Mokatam Mountains." 



20. Falco .esalon, L. Mei-liu. 



Very abundant in spring in nearly every thick Acacia clump, 

 especially near Benisooef, where I have seen as many as thirty 

 in one day, yet I have never met with a female specimen in 

 Egypt. This great preponderance of males, which has been 

 remarked by others before me*, leads me to believe that it rarely, 

 if ever, breeds in Egypt, although I have seen it as late as the 

 beginning of April, but not paired at that season. 



21. Erythropus VESPERTINUS (L.). Orangc-lcgged Hobby. 

 Dr. Heuglin (Ibis, 1861, p. 72) says that numerous flocks 



of this bird are often seen during the spring and autumn in 

 Lower Egypt, and that single specimens are occasionally met 

 with in Upper Egypt and Nubia, but that sometimes sevei-al 

 years pass without a single specimen being obtained. 



* E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 45. 



