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small race of Peregrine which inhabits the coast of the Medi- 
terranean; but they certainly are not the Barbary Falcon. 
The usual average-sized Peregrine, however, nests on rocks 
on both sides of the Straits about the 21st of March, laying 
from three to five eggs. One breeding-place is about four 
miles from Tangier, in the middle of a colony of Rock-Doves 
{C. livia), with whom, as is usual in such cases, they live on 
apparently amicable terms. In this range of cliffs Bonelli's / 
Eagle, the Osprey, and a few Lesser Kestrels also nest. 
26. Falco barbarus, Linn. Barbary Falcon. 
The true Barbary Falcon undoubtedly occurs near Tangier, 
as I obtained one freshly killed specimen from Olcese, shot 
in the neighbourhood, and know of another skin in Mr. 
Dresser^s collection ; but I never myself shot one on either 
side of the Straits. 
This species may be described as a miniature Peregrine 
with a rufous nape. 
27. Falco feldeggii, Schl. The Lanner. 
Favier has, in his MS., under the head of Falco barbarus, 
evidently described the Lanner, as his measurements are 
larger than those of F. peregrinus, instead of smaller ; and all 
the specimens of the Lanner which I have seen from Tangier, 
with one or two exceptions, were labelled "barbarus." 
Favier adds : — " This species, which the Moors confound with 
the Peregrine, is resident and as common as that species 
around Tangier." 
On the 1st of May, 1872, I obtained a female Lanner and 
three eggs. The nest was on the rocks near the above town. 
Two of the eggs were slightly sat on ; the third, much lighter 
in colour, was addled, which is often the case with eggs 
faintly marked or differing from the usual colouring. 
On the Spanish side of the Straits I did not succeed in 
obtaining the Lanner ; but it has lately been found nesting 
near Seville on pine trees, close to the Goto del Rey. In one 
instance, an old nest was used, from which three years pre- 
viously I had shot a Buzzard (-B. vulgaris) and taken two 
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