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the wooded wadys. We have found the nests both in rocks and 
trees, generally the former. Three is the ordinary complement of 
eggs inanest. I took the first nest on Mount Carmel on March 
22nd, and the last we found with fresh eggs was on May Ist. 
15. Pernis apivorus, L. 
In the wooded portions of the country. A permanent resident. 
Observed near Tyre in November, and shot by Mr. E. Bartlett near 
Nazareth in April. 
16. Minvus rEGALIS, Br. 
The Red Kite is universally distributed in winter, but retires in 
early spring from the southern deserts to the ravines of Lebanon 
and Gilead to breed. 
17. Miivus ater, Gm. 
A migrant. Returns in immense numbers about the beginning 
of March, and builds generally in trees about the villages, and occa- 
sionally in the glens and among the rocks. 
18. Mitvus parasiticus, Daud. 
Of the same habits as the preceding, and almost equally abundant. 
Perhaps rather less familiar, and preferring the wadys to the villages. 
A late breeder, having eggs unhatched at the end of May. 
19. ELANUS MELANOPTERUS, Daud. 
Not common. A summer visitant. 
20. FALco PEREGRINUS, L. 
A constant resident on the coast and on the western slopes of the 
hill-country of Judzea, Samaria, and Galilee. Not observed in the 
Jordan valley, norin the east. A female was shot, while incubating, 
at Jaffa in the beginning of March. 
21. Fatco LANARiIvs, Schl. 
Takes the place of the preceding in the whole interior, where it is 
universally distributed. A nest of four eggs taken near Jericho in 
the cliffs on February 29th. We never saw the Lanner and Peregrine 
in the same districts. The Lanner is trained by the great sheiks of 
the east of Jordan for falconry. 
22. Fauco sacer, Schl. 
This noble and unmistakeable bird only came under my observa- 
tion in the oak-forests of Bashan. It seems to preter the wide plains 
and deserts to the cliffs of the Jordan valley. 
23. FALCO ELEONOR#, Gené. 
Several times noted in spring, but not in winter. Breeds in the 
wooded portions of Ceele-Syria. 
