150 Mr. A. B. Brooke on the 



April near Villacidro, flapping slowly and heavily over the 

 ground, not more than 100 yards off; and afterwards I saw 

 two more in the vicinity of St. Antioco, but never met with 

 it elsewhere. This Eagle is generally one of the first summer 

 migrants to appear at Genoa ; and some years they pass over 

 this place in very considerable numbers, arriving as early as 

 the end of March. 



9. BUTEO LAGOPUS. 



There is one specimen of this bird, stuffed, in the museum 

 at Cagliari, which Cara mentions as having been killed near 

 Iglesias in the winter of 1834. 



10. BUTEO VULGARIS. 



Very common, breeding in the large forests. I was greatly 

 struck with the small size of all the Sardinian Buzzards I 

 saw, both alive and dead, compared with continental ones. 

 The measurements of a male taken in the flesh, killed on the 

 8th of March, were as follows : — Length 18*5, wing 13*7, 

 tarsus 33, culmen 1*1. Their chief food in Sardinia consists 

 of lizards, beetles, &c, occasionally varied with young rab- 

 bits. Once I remember seeing one of these birds hovering 

 for a considerable time, head to wind, like a common Kestrel. 



11. MlLVUS ICTINUS. 



Very common. A pair in the habit of regularly hunting 

 round Villacidro were the terror of all the old fowl-women 

 in the town, and, in spite of every precaution, frequently proved 

 too quick for them, and carried off chickens from before their 

 very door. 



12. MlLVUS MIGRANS. 



There is one specimen, stuffed, in the museum at Cagliari, 

 which I was assured positively by Signor Cara had been killed 

 in the island. I myself, however, neither procured nor saw 

 this bird in a state of nature. 



13. Falco peregrinus. 



Very common, breeding in the inland cliffs and along the 

 sea-coast, in both of which localities I have seen their nests. 

 These birds struck me as being very much smaller than con- 

 tinental ones. 



