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117. Falco tinnunculus L. Kestrel. 



Local name : Falcheto. Resident^ but not in large 

 numbers, and also a winter immigrant from the Continent. 

 Although so plentiful during the winter on the low ground, 

 only a small proportion stay to breed, nesting in rocks and 

 ruined towers, &c. Whitehead took a clutch of six fresh 

 eggs on April 29, and we obtained fresh and hard-set eggs 

 on May 30, perhaps of second layings. 



118. Aquila cHRYSAiixos (L.). Golden Eagle. 

 Local names : Acula (Giglioli) ; Agula. 



A resident in the mountains, still surviving in small 

 numbers. Jesse notes that two shot near Corte were both 

 decidedly smaller than the usual type. Whitehead visited two 

 eyries in the mountains, and saw this Eagle once or twice 

 within a hundred yards, but was unable to shoot it. One cyry, 

 though empty, had been renovated with fresh pine-tops on 

 June 12. Some of the feathers of an immature bird, including 

 the characteristic tail-feathers, were still preserved in a house 

 that we visited in 1908, though the bird had been shot several 

 years previously. On May 20 I was able to examine aneyry 

 which had evidently not been occupied that year, and on the 

 same day we twice saw one of the old birds, which on one 

 occasion came sailing with motionless wings over the pine- 

 trees above us. Another site was reported to be inaccessible, 

 and as it was late in the year we did not visit it. 



119. BuTEO BUTEo ARRiGONii Picchi. Sardinian 

 Buzzard. 



Buteo buteo arrigonii Picchi, Avicula, vii. p. 40 (1903 — 

 Sardinia), 



Local names : Falco (Giglioli) ; Biizaio (south) . 



Still a fairly common resident, though apparently reduced 

 in numbers since Whitehead's time, wdien six nests were 

 found by him on rocks along the coast in April within quite 

 a limited area. Signora Picchi has separated the Sardinian 

 and Corsican form on account of its smaller size and 

 reddish-brown colouring (c/. also Brooke, ' Ibis,' 1873, 

 p. 150). At the present time a few pairs breed on the 

 rocky coasts, and here and there may be found nesting high 



