191 9 ] Birds of the Canary Islands. 487 



Range. Typical F.p. peregrinus inhabits north and central 

 Europe and visits Africa in winter. F. p. calidus is an 

 eastern race which was originally described from India, but 

 specimens have been obtained in northern Africa as far west 

 as Morocco. 



Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides. Barbary Falcon. 

 (= Falco barharus auctorum.) 



Falco pelegrinoides Temminck, PI. Col. 479, 1829 or 1830 

 — Type locality : Nubia. 



A Partial Resident. 



Hab. in Archipelago. 



Western Group * : Gran Canaria, Tenerife. 

 Eastern Group : Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, 

 Outer islets : Montana Clara, Roqiie del Oueste. 



This fine Falcon, over which there has been much con- 

 fusion, must be considered a Partial Resident in the Canaries. 



A few pairs inhabit and breed in the most inaccessible 

 spots in the Archipelago, and it occasionally passes through 

 the islands in spring on migration. Whether any of these 

 migrants remain to breed has not been solved. 



It was obviously this species which Tristram noted in 

 Gran Canaria in March 1888, undoubtedly breeding birds 

 (Ibis, 1889, p. 17). ]Meade-Waldo saw them at all seasons 

 of the year (Ibis, 1893, p. 197 — F. punicus, et Ibis, 1889, 

 pp. 516, 517). 



Cabrera (Cattilogo, p. 31) notes that Falco peregrinus is a 

 migrant from March to April, and also includes F. barbarus 

 in his list as a migrant, and says there is a specimen in the 

 Las Palmas Museum t- His notes most probably refer to 

 the same species, which it has now been decided must be 

 called F. p. pelegrinoides (cf. Ilartert, Nov. Zool. xxii. 1915, 

 p. 171). 



* I can find no records of the Barbary Falcon from Palma, Gomera, 

 or Ilierro, but shall be surprised if the bird does not inhabit any of 

 these islands. 



t The two mounted specimens in the Las Palmas Museum are 

 examples uf F. p. peler/riiujides. 



