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most plentiful in the winter, but probably remains occasionally 

 to breed in the country ; for on the 6th of May I shot a spe- 

 cimen at Aboo Fayda. 



Upper plumage slate-colour, darkest on the head and 

 shoulders, and changing to grey on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, which are barred with dusky ; feathers on 

 the back and wings narrowly edged with dirty white; tail 

 iDanded with grey, inclining to cream-colour on the inner 

 webs, and tipped with buff. Under plumage white or cream- 

 colour, streaked or spotted with brown on the crop and barred 

 on the abdomen, flanks, and thighs ; cere, eyelids, and legs 

 yellow ; beak horn-blue, inclining to yellow at the base of the 

 lower mandible. 



Feviale. — Entire length 19 inches; culmen 1"5 ; wing, 

 carpus to tip, 14 ; tarsus 21. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 21. 



173. Falco barbarus, Linn. Barhary Falcon. 



This Falcon, though a resident, is rather rare in Egypt 

 and Nubia. At Edfoo on the 21st of April I saw a pair of 

 Falcons which, from their small size and long pointed wings, 

 I beheve to have belonged to this species ; and on the follow- 

 ing day I shot a handsome male specimen on a sandbank 

 near El Kab. 



To'p of the head grey, with dark centres to the feathers ; 

 nape rufous ; remainder of the upper parts grey barred with 

 dusky, most strongly between the shoulders ; inner web of 

 the primaries barred with flesh-colour ; tail darkest towards the 

 end, tipped with white and banded with irregular dusky 



