44 Mr. J. A. Bucknill on the 



" M afipo/AUTL " which he uses — to F. pereyrinus, though 

 Sibthorp speaks of his bird as having a " blue tail." It is 

 impossible to say with much confidence what Sibthorp 

 meant, but " blue tail " and " MafipofMUTi " seem to me to fit 

 better La Marmora's Falcon. The Peregrine was not met 

 with by Lord Lilford, but Guillemard makes several 

 references to it in his ' Ibis ' articles ; he bought a live female 

 in the plumage of the first year in the Famagusta bazaar at the 

 end of February, 1888, shot an adult of the same sex on March 

 the 21st, near the same locality, and found two pairs — pre- 

 sumably nesting — in early May, near the ruins of St. Hilariou 

 Castle on the Kyrenia range. Lord Lilford, however, thought 

 that F. pereyrinus was only a winter visitor, and that F.punicus 

 would be found to be the form of Peregrine breeding 

 in Cyprus. None of us have as yet succeeded in obtaining 

 a specimen of either species, and at present, therefore, I am 

 not in a position to comment confidently on Lord Lilford's 

 suggestion. A Peregrine — whichever it may be — is by no 

 means uncommon ; I have frequently seen it on Troodos in the 

 summer, and when shooting at Papho in September, 1908, 

 Mr. T. Greenwood and I were " waited on " persistently by 

 a pair, which in one day took from the former no less than 

 three wounded Turtle-doves. In that district they prey, no 

 doubt, chiefly on the large flocks of Rock-doves which dwell 

 in the southern cliffs, and I have seen the Peregrines swoop 

 and strike as the doves wound down in a straggling stream 

 to the sesame and bean fields. During this September I 

 should say I saw in the Papho neighbourhood, quite a 

 dozen Peregrines. Horsbrugh and I found a pair, evidently 

 nesting, in the precipice below the ruins of Buffavento, but 

 the spot where we thought their eyrie was situated was 

 hopelessly inacessible. 



765. Falco punicus Levaill. 



Lord Lilford saw a single bird near Salamis on the 1st of 

 May, 1875, which he was sure was the Lesser Peregrine. As 

 mentioned above he was of the opinion that it was probable 

 that this species nested in the island, and that the typical 



