438 Mr. J. H. Giirney's Noles on 



second, immature female"^ in tliat collection, also from 

 Granada, and sexed by Mr. Howard Saunders, with the fol- 

 lowing results — wing 11-35, tarsus 1*75, middle toe s. u. 

 1-80. 



On the subject of the dimensions of F. barbarus I may 

 mention that Dr. Scully has very kindly furnished me Avith 

 the following note relating to his measurements of eastern 

 examples, which I have quoted at pp.311 and 312: — "I 

 measured the wings on the under surface, not over the upper 

 surface, with a flexible measure, as you do, so that if you 

 took the wing-measurement of the specimen now, you would 

 certainly make the Aving a little longer than the dimensions 

 I have given in my paper in ' Stray Feathers.^ " 



Amongst the specimens of F. punicus preserved in the 

 British Museum, I examined, during my recent visit, an adult 

 bird, apparently a male, which formerly belonged to the late 

 Mr. Gould, and which was ticketed by him as having been 

 obtained in Assam. If this locality is correct, it is by far the 

 most eastern one that has yet been ascertained for this species. 

 This specimen resembles the Morocco male described by me 

 under the letter N, above, p. 317; but it is slightly larger than 

 it and other western males, the following being its dimen- 

 sions — wing 11-70, tarsus 1-90, middle toe s. u. 2*05. 



I also carefully examined the two Sardinian Falcons for 

 which Mr. Sharpe formerly proposed the specific name of 

 " hrookei," and I agree with his present opinion, that they 

 must be referred to F. pei'eyrinus. They both appear to me 

 to be birds about twelve months old, and the one killed in 

 April 1869 still retains its immature plumage on the least 

 coverts of the right wing. According to my method of 

 measurement the following are the dimensions of these 

 specimens : — ? , killed April 18G9, one wing 13-70, the other 

 wing 14-25 1, tarsus 1*90, middle toes. m. 2-15; ?, killed 



* This specimen is labelled, erroneously as I conceive, " Falco com- 

 munis." 



t It frequently happens that the two wings do not give, in the dried 

 s^kin, exactly the same measurement; when this is the case I always 

 take the longer measure, unless there seems to be some sufficient reason 

 for giving both, 



