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very different bird from either islandus or candicans. 

 This falcon has much more of the peregrine about him 

 in make and appearance." * 



"February 26 / % 1885. 



" Alas ! I fear that all personal locomotion, except 

 that I can share with c inert matter,' is out of the 

 question, though I am, thank God, very fairly well in 

 general health. I am quite out of the swim, ornitho- 

 logically, and entirely dependent upon the compassion and 

 sympathy of my birdy brethren for information. My old 

 blue rock-thrush taken from the nest in the Strait of 

 Bonifacio in May 1882 moulted in September last, very 

 thoroughly, into a plumage much resembling, but rather 

 an exaggeration of, a nestling bird, all the breast and 

 flank feathers edged with dirty white, and the plumage 

 of those parts unusually downy and thick ; within the last 

 three weeks he has begun to moult again, and some few 

 of the wing coverts are all broadly tipped with a slightly 

 rusty white." 2 



"April i6th, 1894. 



" The sparrow-hawk does good service by taking hard- 

 billed birds, as Passer impudicus (Mihi), Damnabilis (Irby), 

 Papisticus (Tristram), Sanguineus (agricolae), and other 

 grain-devourers." 



1 To the Rev. Canon Tristram. 



2 To the same. 

 * To the same. 



