306 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notea on 



addition to tlie type of F. peregrinoides from Dongola, to 

 which I have ah'cady referred, three examples from Khartum, 

 according to the list given by Prof, Sohlegel in his work on 

 the Museum des Pays-Bas, vol. i. Falcones, p. 6. I may 

 likewise mention, as Mr. Dresser speaks doubtfully of the 

 occurrence of F. barbarus at Tangier, that a Falcon from 

 thence, which I consider to be referable to this species, is 

 preserved in the Norwich Museum*. 



The ordinary adult plumage of F. barbarus may be easily 

 recognized by a reference to the figures which I have already 

 mentioned in ' The Ibis^ for 1859 and in Dresser's 'Birds of 

 Europe.' The phase of plumage, evidently also adult, which 

 is represented in the P. Z. S. for 1876, pi. 23, from Mr. 

 Anderson's Etawah specimen, with the rufous tint extend- 

 ing over the crown of the head, where, however, it is mingled 

 with black, and also bordering the interscapular feathers 

 broadly and the scapulars slightly, is much scarcer, if, indeed, 

 it be not specifically distinct ; and I have only seen two spe- 

 cimens, besides that obtained by Mr. Anderson, which exhibit 

 a similar appearance : one of these was procured in Nubia, and 

 is preserved in the British Museum ; the other was shot at Hy- 

 derabad, in Sind, on the 12th of March, 1878, by Captain E. 

 A. Butler t, and was for sometime in the care of Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, to whose kindness 1 was indebted for an opportunity 

 of seeing it. These three specimens are all adult males. 



I now propose to refer to the South-African Falcon, upon 

 which Bonaparte conferred the specific name of " minor." 

 Mr. Sharpe, in his article on this species, only describes a 

 young specimen, and does not allude to its adult plumage ; 

 but at pi. 12 of his volume he gives good figures of both the 

 adult and the immature dress, taken, as he has been good 

 enough to inform me, from Soutli-African examples, which, 



* This specimen is in change from the first to the second year's phi- 

 mage ; but the rufous nuchal collar is already largely developed and 

 richly coloured, which, I consider, stamps it as F. barbarus. The new 

 feathers on the breast are, however, spotted, whilst in older individuals 

 these spots are iil)sent. 



t Captain Butler's interesting notes on F. barbarus, as observed in 

 Sind, will be found in ' Stray Feathers ' for 1878, pt. 2, p. 174. 



