BARBARY FALCON. 39 
Rapaces DlURN^E. 
FALCONID^. 
Genus Falco. 
BARBARY FALCON. 
Falco barbarus. 
Falco barbarus, Linnjeus, 1766; Ibis, 1859. 
" punicus, Le Vaillant. 
" tanypferus, (/3) Blasitjs. 
"Barbary Faulcon" or Barbary 
Falcon, Of Authors. 
"Bournee," Of the Arabs. 
Specific Characters. — Nape of the neck rufous; under plumage reddish; 
feet and claws strongly developed. Length thirteen inches five lines; wing 
eleven inches; tail five inches; tarsus one inch seven lines; bill from gape 
one inch. — Salvin, Ibis, vol. i., p. 189. 
This pretty little miniature Peregrine must not only be considered 
as distinct from its larger congener, but also freely admitted into the 
European Fauna, since it has been obtained at Malta; two specimens 
by Mr. Brooke in Sardinia; and an adult female in Holland, which is 
preserved in the Ley den Museum. 
We are indebted to Mr. Osbert Salvin for a detailed account of this 
bird, and a beautiful illustration by Wolf. I shall quote freely from 
this article of Mr. Salvin's, for as an authority among writers upon 
falconry and hawking birds he stands very high. 
"There cannot be much doubt that the small Peregrine of the 
Atlas, the Falco punicus of General Le Vaillant, is in truth the 
Barbary Falcon of the old writers on Hawking, the foundation of the 
F. barbarus of Linnaeus, Gmelin, and Latham, though the latter name 
