296 J-'ALCOXID-E. 



are fairly glossy. Three specimens are of a yellowish-buff colour, 

 densely speckled and mottled with rich brown all over. One is 

 buff, mottled and smeared with reddish brown. They measure 

 respectively: 2 by 1-51 ; 1'93'by 1'48 ; 2-08 by 1-5; 1 : 9 by 1'47. 



1. New Zealand. Crowley Bequest. 



3. New Zealand (Field Coll}. Crowley Bequest. 



Harpa australis (Hombr. $ Jacq.). 



Harpa australis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 373 (1874) ; id. Hand-l 



i. p. 273 (1899). 

 Harpa ferox, Buller, Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed. i. p. 220 (1888). 



The sole egg of the Small New-Zealand Falcon in the Collection 

 is of a very regular oval shape and slightly glossy. It is pale buff, 

 densely spotted and smeared with rich reddish brown. It measures 

 1-78 by 1-35. 



1. New Zealand (Field Coll}. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus FALCO, Linn. 



The eggs of the Falcons vary from a broad oval to an elliptical 

 or spheroidal shape. The shell is generally devoid of gloss, but a 

 certain number of specimens in every large series exhibit a slight 

 amount. 



Palco peregrinus, Twist. 



Falco geiitilis, Thien. Fortpjianz. ges. Voy. tab. li. fig. 1, a~e (1845-54). 

 Falco communis, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 2(3. fig.- 1 (1855-63) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 376 (1874) : Baird, Brewer $ Ridgw. 



N. Amer. Birds, iii. p. 132 (1874) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient. 



i. pt. i. p. 77(1891). 

 Falco peregrinus, HeiDitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 24, pi. viii. (1856) ; 



Seebohm $ Har me- Brown, Ibis, 1876, p. HO; Dresser, Birds Eur. 



vi. p. 31 (1876) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 323 ; id. Brit. Birds, i. 



p. 23, pi. 3 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 4, pi. 3. fig. 1 (1896) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 273 (1899). 

 Falco peregrinus anatum, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 147 



(1887) ; Bendire, Life-Hint . N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 292, pi. x. figs. 5-7 



(1892). 



The eggs of the Peregrine Falcon vary from cream -colour to 

 pinkish buff and deep brownish red. The majority are densely 

 marked with spots, blotches, and smears, more or less confluent, of 

 various shades of reddish brown and, less frequently, yellowish brown, 

 while in many specimens a very small extent only of the ground- 

 colour remains visible. Some eggs are marked with rather well- 

 defined spots and blotches, chiefly on the larger half. On some of 

 the richer- coloured examples a few small markings of intensely 

 deep blackish brown may be observed. A series of eggs measures 

 from 1'So to 2'lf> in length, and from T48 to 1*75 in breadth. 



