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6. Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrinus. 

 Guilleniard bought a female of this species in first yearns 



plumage alive at Famagusta^ in February 1888, and shortly 

 afterwards obtained a very fine adult of the same sex. The 

 only peregrinoid Falcon that 1 saw in Cyprus was near 

 Salamis, on 1st of May, 1875; it passed within a few yards of 

 me as I was riding, in pelting rain, and was, I feel sure, one 

 of the small race, F. punicus. From experience in other 

 parts of the Mediterranean, I consider it probable that this 

 form breeds in Cyprus and that the typical F. peregrinus is a 

 winter visitor to the island, as we know it to be to Egypt 

 and Andalucia, *. G. 



7. Merlin. Falco atsalon. 



1 received a poor specimen in immature plumage from 

 Pearse in 1879, but have unfortunately lost it, and cannot 

 therefore give any details as to sex, date, or locality. A 

 very perfect adult male specimen obtained by Guillemard 

 is labelled, Famagusta, March 20, 1888. I saw one or two 

 Merlins near that town in April 1875. *. 



8. La Marmora^s Falcon. Falco eleonora. 



I was much pleased to find several pairs of this species — 

 my old Sardinian acquaintance — sailing about the cliff's near 

 Cape Gato, in company with Griffon Vultures, on May 8th, 

 1875. Several passed within easy gunshot range, but I did 

 not fire at them, as there could be no mistake as to their 

 species, and if I had killed one it would have fallen into the 

 sea some 100 feet below me, and been lost. Guillemard 

 found these Falcons at this same spot in March 1887, and 

 killed one of them, which he was unable to recover, but 

 brought home a very fine dark specimen, shot in the 

 Akrotiri district in 1886 by an officer of the 49th Foot. *. 



9. Red-legged Falcon. Falco vespertinus. 



1 only met with this species on one occasion, at dusk, on 

 May 6th, 1875, when, as we returned to our boat after a 

 long day^s ramble about the flats of the promontory of Akro- 

 tiri (the 'Glowworm' lying in Limasol Roads), a considerable 

 number of these beautiful little Falcons suddenly appeared 



