Mr. R. B. S/iarpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 315 



Wing. Tarsus. Middle toe 6-. u, 



ia. in. in 



T. Tangier : collected by Col. j 



Irby; in collection of Lordj- 13-30 1-90 2-00 



Lilford. Adult I 



U. Eastern Atlas : Norwich j 



Museum; kept alive by J.i 13 00 1-90 200 



H. Giu-ney I 



W. Algeria : skeleton in Nor- 1 



wicli Museum ; kept alive by j- 1-85 2-00 



Mr. J. H. Giu-ney I 



PllESUMED FEMALli. 



X. Tangier : British JMuseum . 13-20 2-00 2-10 



The following results may be deduced from the above mea- 

 surements, excluding those specimens which I have not per- 

 sonally examined, and also excluding F.punicus, specimen M., 

 for the reason which I have mentioned in the footnote relating 

 to it : — 



It will be seen by this summary that, as regards the females, 

 F. barbarus is the smallest species of the three, F.punicus 

 the largest, and F. minor intermediate in size between the 

 other two ; whilst as regards the male sex, the dimensions of 

 F. bar bar-US and 7^. minor are nearly identical, F. punicus 

 being slightly larger than either. 



Mr. Dresser, in his article on Falco minor, to which I have 

 already referred, mentions the female Falcons referred by 

 him to that species — one, from Rhodes, with a wing accord- 

 ing to his measument of 11 inches (but according to mine 

 11 "5 on one wing and 11 "6 on the other), and a specimen 

 from Tangiers, in Lord Lilford's collection with a wing- 

 measurement of ll'l. I have already expressed my beLef 



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