110 FALCO VESPERTINUS. 



[§ 274. 0^^.— Holland. From Mr. R. Reynolds, 1847.] 



[§ 275. :Zko.— Falkenswaard, North Brabant, 1861. From 

 Mr. Newcome's Collection. 



These two eggs were obtained by Mr. Newcome during his visit to Hol- 

 land, in 1851, to attend the Loo Hawking Meeting. He brought them over 

 himself, and gave them to my brother and myself.] 



[§ 276. Two.— Burnt Fen, Mildenhall, Suffolk, 1852. From 

 Mr. Whitmore Baker. 



These eggs were stated to be from diiferent nests, and my brother under- 

 stood Mr. Baker to say he took them himself.] 



[§ 277. Two.—Benacre, Suffolk, 2 July, 1853. " J.F." From 

 Mr. J. Farr's Collection, 1856. 



Mr. Farr, waiting to me from GUlingham Rectory, 14th Febniaiy 1856, 

 says : — " I send you to-day two Hobby's eggs, and hope they will arrive 

 safely. They are the second pair I took out of the same nest, and are some- 

 thing smaller than the first pair, which I took on the 8th of June, shooting 

 the hen bird. The male then paired again, and on the 2nd July I took the 

 two eggs I have sent you. Since 1853 I have not found another nest."] 



[§ 278. Three.— New Forest, Hampshire, 21 June, 1861. 

 " With bird." From Mr. W. Farren. 



These I obtained from Mr. Farren in the autunm of the same year, with the 

 skin of the hen bird.] 



[§ 279. 0;?^.— "South Russia." From Herr A. Heinke, of 

 Kamuschin, through Dr. Albert Gimther, 1863.] 



FALCO VESPERTINUS, Linnaeus. 

 RED-FOOTED FALCON. 

 § 280. Two.— From M. Perrot's Collection, 1845. 



