LETTER TO G. E. LODGE FALCONS 153 



are tempting birds, but with 2 Nutcrackers, a 

 Hill Mynah, a Bush Quail, 2 Bullfinches, a 

 Shama, Old Sardo, 1 and 12 Mud Lizards Molge 

 Waltlii, we have about as much as Mrs. Milne 

 can well attend to in addition to an adult 

 specimen of Homo arthriticus. I heard from 

 Irby of his campaign in Trafalgar Square. I am 

 expecting some good birds from Malaga. They 

 are coming by ss. " Mogador." 



To George E. Lodge, F.Z.S. 



'Lilford: April 24, 1888. 



' Dear Mr. Lodge, I presume that when 

 you wrote that the Shahin looks very like 

 " Barbary Falcon " you referred to the birds 

 which are often sent to Leadenhall Market from 

 Mogador, and I believe that these birds are 

 truly of the species to which that name was 

 given by old English writers on falconry, but 

 they are decidedly not the Falco barbarus of 

 0. Salvin (of Ibis 1859, with plate by Wolf). 

 These hawks from Mogador are a small race of 



1 A very tame Blue Rock Thrush, for thirteen years his constant 

 companion. 



