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well as Shahins, are always caught after they have left the nest 

 and have had some instruction by their parents, our native 

 falconers considering them better than when taken from the nest, 

 contrary, I beheve, to the opinion of our English Adam Wood- 

 cocks " ; and again in the account of F. peregrinator : — " The Shahin 

 and other Falcons are usually caught by what is called the Eerwan. 

 This is a thin strip of cane of a length about equal to the expanse 

 of wings of the bird sought for. The ends of the stick are 

 smeared with bird-lime for several inches and a living bird is tied 

 to the centre of it. On observing the hawk, the bird, which has 

 its eyes sewn up to make it soar, is let loose, and the Falcon 

 pounces on it and attempts to carry it oif , when the ends of its 

 wings strike the limed twig and it falls to the ground. The birds 

 usually selected for this purpose are doves." 



The nest of this Falcon, a mass of sticks, is always placed on a 

 cliff : the eggs are laid about March and April, and resemble those 

 of the Peregrine ; they are brownish yellow to brick-red in colour, 

 speckled and blotched with reddish brown, and they measure 

 about 2 by 1-63. 



1256. Palco barbams. The Barhary Falcon. 



Falco barbarus, Lirni. Sijst. Nat. i, p. 125 (1766) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 184, pi. vi ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 19 ; v, p. 140 ; id. Cat. no. 12 

 bis ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 386 ; Butler, S. F. vii, p. 174 ; id. 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 135 ; Ourneij, Ibis, 1882, p. 305; 1887, p. 158; id. 

 S. F. X, p. 480. 



Falco pelegrinoides, Te7nm. PL Col. pi. 479 (1829). 



Falco peregrinoides, SchL, Susemihl, Abbild. Vog. Eur. p. 39, pi. ix, 

 fig. 1 (1839) ; Hodgs. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 81 ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mam. ^c. Coll. Hodgson, p. 44. 



Falco babylonicus, Gurney, Ibis, 1861, p. 218, pi. vii ; Jerdon, B. I. 

 i, p. 32 ; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 79 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 240 ; 

 Delme Radcl. ibid. p. 366; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 230 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 387 ; Andersoti, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 311, 

 pi. 23 ; 1878, p. 2 ; Butler, S. F. vii, p. 179 ; Hume, ibid. pp. 196, 

 329 ; X, p. 515 ; id. Cat. no. 12 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1882, p. 439 ; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 13 ; Littledale, Jour. Bom. N. H. Sac. i, 

 p. 194 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 151 ; Philott, Ibis, 1890, p. 467. 



The Bed-headed Lanner, Jerdon ; Shahin, Safed Shahin, Ldl-sir Shahin^ 

 H. (Punjab). 



Coloration. Forehead and lores buff ; a varying portion of the 

 middle of the crown behind the forehead more or less rufous ; 

 remainder of the crown ashy brown ; all coronal feathers with 

 dark shafts ; feathers round eye and narrow cheek-stripe blackish, 

 the latter mixed or bordered with rufous; sides of neck buff; 

 broad nuchal collar rufous, often mixed with brown (occasionally 

 nearly the whole crown and nape are light chestnut) ; upper parts 

 ashy grey with dark or blackish cross-bars, the bars broad and 

 predominating on the upper back and wing-coverts, less broad on 

 the scapulars, narrow, and in old birds faint, on the rump and 



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