22'. 



NESTS AA'D EGGS OF 



used to hawk for quails, snipes and larks. The rugged mountain ranges on the 

 Scottish border furnish many breeding places for the Merlin. The site generally se- 

 lected Is the side of some ravine, a projecting rock, bank, or tuft of heath. The 

 Best consists of a scanty supply of sticks, heather, grass or moss, loosely arranged. 



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Mr.Hi IN (Kioin Hiehin) 



The eggs arc three, four or five In number; Bewick says six; Temminck, five or six. 

 They are bluish-white, spotted and blotched, generally more thickly at the larger 

 end, with deep reddish-brown. Average size, 1.49x1.20. Eleven sets of five eggs 

 each are In Mr. Crandall's extensive collection. The:- iken in I, upland ;unl 



various localities In Iceland, all in June between the dates ranging from tl ::! to the 

 14th. The average size of the fifty-five eggs is 1.58x1.23 inches; the longest being 

 26, the shortest 1.60x1.24. 



359. APLOMADO FALCON. Pnlm fttteo-ttmiJeftttffJ Virill. 

 Southern Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, south to Patagonin. 



Geog. Dist. 



