436 Rev. A. C. Smith on the Birds of Portugal. 



9. fFALCo PEREGRiNus, Gmel. Peregrine Falcon. " Fal- 

 ccio." 



It is strange that this cosmopolite should be described as of 

 extremely rare occurrence in Portugal ; but I was assured that 

 it was very seldom met with in that country. 



10. fFALCO TiNNUNCULUS, Liuu. Kcstrcl. " Francelho,'^ 

 " Peneireiro." 



Abundant everywhere, as the fact of its possessing two local 

 names would imply. 



Falco suhbuteo and Astur palumbarius are also pronounced to 

 be tolerably common ; but I did not meet with either of them, 

 whether alive or in the museums. The former is known in 

 Portugal as " Falcdo tagarote '" the latter as " Aqor." 



11. *AcciPiTER Nisus (Linn.) . Sparrow-Hawk. " Gaviao." 

 Common throughout the country. 



Of Accipiter gabar (Daud.), the Little Ued-billed Hawk, for 

 which I made special inquiry, I could hear nothing ; indeed Prof, 

 du Bocage, to whom the species was well known as an inhabitant 

 of Afi'ica, assured me that it had never been seen in Portugal^ . 



13. *MiLvus icTiNUS, Sav. Kite. " Milhafre/' " Mil- 

 hano." 



The double local name again marks pretty clearly the abun- 

 dance of the bird which is thus honoured ; and I met with this 

 graceful species in Alemtejo and Estremadura. 



I did not see my old Egyptian friends Milvus migrans (Bodd.) 

 and M. cegyptius (Gmel.), though both are said to occur occa- 

 sionally in Portugal ; they do not, however, appear in the 

 museums. 



13. *Elanus ciERULEus (Dcsfout.). Black- winged Kite. 

 Prof, du Bocage pointed out to me, as a more recent addition 



\ [This statement is of no small value, since M. J. G. Fatio-Beaumont, 

 who is considered to have first recorded the occurrence of this species, 

 under the very amhiguous name '' Astur micrmiisns, Bp.", in Portugal (Nau- 

 mannia, 1856, p. 267), states that a pair hilled at their nest are, with their 

 eg-gs, in the late King's collection. Had the assertion heen correct, Prof, 

 du Bocage must have been aware of the fact. — Ed.] 



