Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 311 



1 now propose to give some particulars of the adult speci- 

 mens of Falco punicus which have come under my notice ; 

 but before doing so, I think it may be serviceable to give the 

 particulars of some measurements, all taken by myself, except 

 where otherwise described, of F. barbarus, F. minor, and 

 F. punicus. 



Falco barbarus. 



Adult ob, nbably Adult Males, as ascertained by dissection. 



Wing. Tarsus. Middle toe .«. ti. 



in. in. in. 



Tangier: Norwich Museum) iQ.9,5 1.70 j.qq 



(Favier) I 



Sakkara, Egypt : Norwich Mu- I ^^.^q ^.^^^^ ^.qq 



seuni (Parzi(daki) i 



El Kab, Egypt : shot by Capt. I j^^.oq ^qq 1-30 



Shelley, and id liis colleotion ) 

 Etawah, N. India: Norwich j *]^2^.4q [.qq ]-80 



Museum (Anderson) ( 



Hyderabad, Sind : shot by 1 



Capt. E. A. Butler, and in i 11-25 1-70 



his possession ! 



Males, as recorded in ' Stray Feathers.' 



Vol. i. p. 21 :— 

 Cutch (Mr. Hume) 10;80 1-60 1-63 



Vol. iv. p. 118:— 

 Gulgan-Shah, Eastern Tur- ( j^q.-q i-qq 



kestan (Dr. Scully) I 



Vol. vii. p. 174 : — 

 Three, from Sind ( Capt. E. A. I i n.gy 

 Butler) ( 



* Mr. A. Anderson, in his description of this speci men given in the P. Z. S. 

 for 1876, p. oil, gives the Aving, "carefully measm-ed in the flesh," as 

 10-7. The discrepancy between this measurement and mine probably 

 arises fi'om the mode of measuring. I have used a flexible measure, and 

 have followed the convexity of the outer surface of the wing (which, I 

 think, is sometimes greater in skins than in the tiesh) in taking an other- 

 wise straight line from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary. 

 Some few others of my wing-measurements here given are slightly m 

 excess of those which have been elsewhere published, taken from the same 

 specimens, which probably arises from a similar cause. 



