Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 805 



smallest, and which is that figured in the PI, Col. pi. 479, 

 from a Dongola specimen preserved in the Museum at 

 Leyden"^ under the wame of Faico pelegrinoides. The more 

 correct spelling of the specific name, peregrinoides, is adopted 

 by Schlegel and Susemihl for their figures of this species in 

 their Vog. Eur. pi. 9. fig. 1, also by Fritsch in pi. 2 of his work 

 of the same name, where fig. 3 of this plate appears, though 

 not very distinctly, to represent an individual of this species. 



This Falcon is figui'ed under the designation of F. barbarus 

 by Mr. Salvin in ^The Ibis ' for 1859, pi. vi., by Dr. Bree in 

 the second edition of his ' Birds of Europe/ vol. i. p. 39, and 

 by Mr. Dresser in his work on the same subject, vol. vi. 

 pi. 374, — these three figures having all been taken from the 

 same specimen, which was shot by Mr. Salvin at Kef Boudjato, 

 in the Eastern Atlas, and by him presented to the Norwich 

 Museum, where it is still preserved. 



A somewhat abnormal specimen of this species, shot in the 

 Etawah district of Northern India by the late Mr. A. Ander- 

 son, was figured in the P. Z. S. for 1876, pi. 23, under the 

 name of F. babylonicus , which was subsequently corrected in 

 the volume for 1878, p. 2. This example is also preserved in 

 the Norwich Museum. 



All the above figures represent the adult plumage of Falco 

 barbarus — an ancient title which has been revived in favour 

 of this Falcon, and at which I am not disposed to cavil, though 

 I confess that its claim to the title seems to me to be some- 

 what clouded by the mistiness with which antique pedigrees 

 are usually surrounded. 



Mr. Dresser, in his article on F. barbarus in the ' Birds of 

 Europe,' gives a detailed account of the localities where this 

 species has been met with, to which I would add that an adult 

 specimen, obtained by Dr. Baikie on the river Niger, is 

 recorded by Dr. Finsch in the ' Transactions ' of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, vol. vii. p. 205, this being, so far as I am 

 aware, the most southern locality hitherto ascertained for 

 this Falcon ; also that the Museum at Leyden contains, in 



* Vide Schlegel's jNIus. ties Pays-Bas, Falcons, p. G. When at Leyden, 

 in 1869, 1 saw this specimen, and carefully examined and identified it. 



