622 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. 
Faico suspuTEO. Hobby. 
FALcO TANYPTERUS (/feldeggi). Lanner. 
During the month of March I observed several solitary 
specimens of both these birds in the pine-woods of Lacroma 
and along the coast. 
FALco TINNUNCULUS. Kestrel. 
Single birds were seen in March and April on the cliffs of 
the Dalmatian coast, and one stooped to the Eagle-Owl when 
I was shooting in the Herzegovina. 
Fauco cencuris. Lesser Kestrel. 
Common near towns and cliffs both in Southern Dalmatia 
and the Herzegovina, and very numerous among the rocks of 
the Istrian islands, and in the villages of Northern Dalmatia, 
particularly among ruins. Up to the middle of March there 
were but few Lesser Kestrels to be seen at Lacroma and its 
neighbourhood, and not until the end of that month and in 
April did they arrive in great numbers. 
ASTUR PALUMBARIUS. Goshawk. 
During the middle of March I observed one of these birds 
which for several consecutive days came and hunted through 
the island of Lacroma in all directions. In the latter part of 
this month it was no longer to be seen. 
Aquita FuLVA. “Stein” Hagle. 
On March 18th I saw a “ Stein” Eagle fly across the Bocche 
di Cattaro, and in the Herzegovina I observed several. On 
April 15th one of these eagles, together with a raven, re- 
peatedly swooped down close to our Eagle-Owl; and about 
the middle of March the head forester on the island of Meleda 
told me that a pair of them had been staying there for the 
