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varieties one with a paler head than the other. 

 Possibly one reason why the Greenland Falcon 

 and the Lanner neither live long nor fly well 

 with us, is owing to the fact that each comes 

 from a very different climate to that of England, 

 and requires greater skill in training than the 

 nineteenth century possesses. On the Sahara 

 the Lanner is the favourite falcon of the Arabs. 

 An Arab sheik who kept falcons in South 

 Algeria once told me that he preferred the 

 Lanner to the Peregrine. His Lanners flew 

 excellently and were so tame that two of them 

 would sit side by side, unhooded, on my arm. 

 In Egypt, too, a Lanner dashing after a dovecot 

 pigeon or calmly flying across the Nile with 

 a Pied Kingfisher in its claws, followed by a 

 screaming crowd of the victim's nearest rela- 

 tions, are sights not to be forgotten. 



' The god Horus, the emblem of the morning, 

 evidently has the head of a Lanner. There was 

 every reason why one who knew as much of the 

 history of birds as Lord Lilford should reverence 

 the Lanner. 



' I well remember his delight on seeing four 

 Lanner 's eggs which I brought him from a nest 



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