186 BIRDS or EGYPT. 



Adult male. — Smaller and brighter ; upper plumage blue ; 

 underparts shaded with rufous on the breast, but especially 

 on the flanks and thighs. 



Entire length 12 inches; culmen 0'5 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7-2 ; tarsus 2-3. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part ix. 



171. AcciPiTER GABAR (Daud.). Little Bed-billed Hawk. 



This species may probably be met with as a rare straggler 

 throughout Egypt and Nubia; for Mr. Edgar Larking has 

 given me the description of a bird shot by him in Upper 

 Egypt which agrees precisely with the present species. 

 Although he brought the specimen home, it has unfortunately 

 been mislaid, so that I have not been able to examine it. 

 Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 74) gives Derr as its most 

 northern limit on the Nile, while Schlegel says that it is plen- 

 tiful near Suez. 



Upper plumage slaty grey ; quills barred with dusky, their 

 inner webs white, secondaries tipped with white ; tapper tail- 

 coverts and tip of tail white, with four broad black bands on 

 the latter; throat pale grey; remainder of the underparts 

 white, closely banded with narrow dusky bars ; cere and legs 

 red ; beak black. 



Entire length 12 inches; culmen 0"8 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7'5 ; tarsus 1"9. 



Fig. Bree, B. of Eur. vol. i. p. 51. 



172. Falco peregrinus, Linn. Peregrine Falcon. 



The Peregrine ranges throughout Egypt and Nubia. It is 



