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 w 7 hen 

 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 decided^ 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. 



