1921.] Birds of Louder Kgypt. 363 



126. Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides. Barbary Falcon. 

 Mr. M. J. NicoU and myself saw a pair of Barbary 



Falcons feeding young in a nest on the Dahshur Pyramids 

 on 12 April, 1918. The site was about sixty feet up on the 

 eastern slope and in an impossible place to examine. The 

 Egyptian riots prevented me looking it up again in 1919. 



[On 28 March, 1909, I took three fresh eggs from a low 

 ledge on the Dahshilr Pyramid. The eggs are decidedly 

 smaller than those of the Lanner, averaging 49'7 x38"l mm. 

 in size, and in appearance not unlike Hobby's eggs. — R. S.] 



127. Falco biarmicus tanypterus. Lanner Falcon. 



Seen occasionally perching on our tall wireless masts : 

 usually in the autumn. Ckptain W. Bigger found a nest on 

 which the bird was sitting, on an inaccessible ledge in the 

 clitfs behind the Citadel in Cniro, on 30 March, 1917, and 

 another in the Moqattam Hills, which probably coutained 

 young birds, on 5 April, 1917. I found no trace of its 

 breeding on the Great Pyramids. 



[Used to breed annually on the north side of the second 

 Pyramid at Giza, from which place T had four young on 

 30 April, 1893. In 1894 I took a clutch of four eggs, slightly 

 incubated, on 18 March, from the same place. Three of 

 these eggs are like dark Kestrel's eggs in type, the fourth 

 plum-coloured. Average size 52*7 x 43'2 mm. — R. S.] 



128. Falco concolor. Sooty Falcon. 



On 18 April, 1918, a Sooty Falcon was observed near 

 the Birket Accrashi, and was still in the same vicinity on 

 20 April. I shot a fine immature bird at Abu Zabaal on 

 6 August, 1918 : it was chasing some Hooded Crows at the 

 time. Major F. W. Borman obtained some information 

 about this species breeding near Solium, on the Mediter- 

 ranean seaboard, but the lull jiarticulars are not yet to hand. 



129. Falco subbuteo. Hobby. 



Seen sparingly in the winter months. One shot on 

 19 October, 1916, at the Birket Accrashi. 



