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Mr. J. H. Gurnej'8 Notes on 



Femalks, ascertained and presumed. 

 Wing. 



One from Persia 14-20 



One from Palestine 14'30 



( lP,-20* 



Five from Morocco and Algeria I to 



( 14-no 



Three from Senegambia and J 



'^''^'"-'' 1 li^o 



I 13-OOt 



Six from- Egypt < to 



I 14-90 



Eight from Abyssinia, Bogos, j 



""^^^^"" I 14-90 



It will be observed that the above lists include an adult 

 male and female from Persia which are preserved in the 

 British Museum ; they are both typical examples of the 

 paler race, F. feldeggii, and are the most eastern specimens 

 of this Falcon with which I am acquainted. 



I may add that the only records with which I am ac- 

 quainted of the occurrence of F. tanypterus to the south of 

 the equator are, first, the specimen obtained by Captain Speke 

 at Kazeh, in Unyamuesi, East Africa, which was identified by 

 Dr. Sclater {vide P. Z. S. 1864, p. 107) ; and secondly, that 

 collected by Falkenstein on the Loango coast. West Africa 

 {vide Du Bocage's Orn. d'Angola, p. 534). 



The allied, but thoroughly distinct, South-African Lanner 

 {F. biarmicus, Temm.) is apparently entirely limited to the 

 southern portion of the African continent; for though V. 

 Heuglin included this species amongst those which he met 

 with in Southern Nubia, Sennaar, and Abyssinia {, I cannot 

 but think that he, in all probability, mistook for this species 



* This specimen was sexed by the late M. Favier, of Tangier. 



t This very small female is an immature bird, shot and sexed by Mr. J. 

 H. Gurney, Jun. {vide ' Rambles of a Naturalist.' p. 1;3.')). It is now 

 preserved in the Norwich Museum. 



I Vide Orn. Nordost-.Vfrika's, vol. i. p. 27. 



