392 ^Ir. J. H. Gurney ow the 



race A. harthelemyi, figured in ' Ricbesses Ornithologiques/ 

 had an liistoric eyrie little more than ten miles from the 

 frontier, whence my father procured two young birds^ one 

 of which never got the white scapular spots, and the other 

 not until it was seven years old. One of these is preserved 

 in the Norwich Museum. 



Short-toed Eagle. Circa'etus galUcus. 



The authors of ' Les Richesses Ornithologiques ' say that 

 this is the commonest Eagle in the South of France, arriving 

 in April in small flocks of 4 or 5 ; that a few always breed 

 at Salon, which is 28 miles from Marseilles ; that it is often 

 seen in spring in the great forests of the Var; and that 

 M. Arquier took two eggs at Tanneron, near Grasse. 

 Mr. St. Quintin saAv one on March 16th, 1901, within easy 

 gunshot, at the Grotte de TOurs. 



Pallid Harrier. Circus sivainsoni. 



Several individuals have been obtained at Nice by the 

 Baron de Palluel, and a fine male which I presented to the 

 Norwich Museum was, I believe, got near that place. 



Montagues Harrier. Circus cineraceus. 



Included by Jaubert, but not by Duval-Jouve. A male 

 Harrier believed to be C. cineraceus was seen by Mr. St. 

 Quintin to come in from the sea ; but I should have said 

 that in most of France C. cyaneus was the commoner bird, 

 yet C. cineraceus was formerly extraordinarily abundant in 

 the Department of Vieune (' Rev. Zoologique ') . 



Sparrow-Hawk. Accipiter nisiis. 



A.nisus is pretty common, duxAAstur palumharius, according 

 to the authors here quoted, not very rare, but I have no 

 personal notes to give from my limited observations. 



Egyptian Vulture. Neophron percnopterus. 



When Jaubert wrote (1853) N. percnopterus was to be met 

 with all the year, and bred at Seranon, which is just over the 

 N.E. corner of the Department of Var, not to mention other 

 places. 



