104 FALCO BARBARUS. 



[§ 240. Tko.— Shetlands, May 1856. 



Two very small eggs, and so abnormally coloured as to lead to the supposition 

 that the mother must have been diseased. From the same island as that in 

 § 237. They measure only 1'77 in. by 1'51, and 1-84 in. by 1'51 respectively.] 



[§ 241. (9^e.— Shetlands, 1857. 



From the same correspondent as the last, but from which of the islands I do 



not know.] 



[§ 242. One. — Fiskernses, Greenland. From Dr. David Walker, 

 R.N., Naturalist to the 'Fox/ R. Y. S. 



This egg was obtained during the celebrated voyage of the ' Fox,' imder 

 Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock, R.N. Prof. Reinhardt states his belief 

 (* Ibis,' 1861, p. 5) that " there is no difference between the Peregrine fi'om 

 Greenland and the European one." Sir Leopold mentions (Voy. ' Fox,' p. 197) 

 Peregrine Falcons which were shot at Port Kennedy. These birds I afterwards 

 saw, and one is now in the Norwich Museum. They were, to all appearance, 

 specimens of the true Falco peregrinns, not F. anatum, being small and light- 

 coloured. This Q^g is a little one, measuring but 1'89 in. by 1*54.] 



FALCO BARBARUS, Linnaeus. 



BARBARY FALCON. 



§ 243. One.~K.d Boudjato, Eastern Atlas, 20 April, 1857. 

 " Bird shot." From Mr. W. H. Simpson's Collection. 



[This egg, it appears, was taken in the presence of Mr. 0. Salvin, who shot 

 one of the parent birds. In some excellent remarks on this species in the ' Ibis,' 

 vol. i. pp. 184-189, he states : — " On the 20th of April an Arab reported that 

 he found a nest of " Bownee" in Kef Boudjato, a rock situated no gi-eat 

 distance from Kef Laks. I immediately started to the spot, taking with me 

 Mohammed, my gun, and ropes. A successful siege was the result; and 

 I returned to the tents vnth. three eggs and one of the parent birds."] 



[§244- One.—Kei Boudjato, Eastern Atlas, 18 April, 1857. 

 From Mr. 0. Saivin's Collection. 



Mr. Tristram's party obtained four nests of this species, from two of which 

 a bird was shot. In 1856 he brought home two young ones alive, and in 



