ELEONORA FALCON. 43 
RAPACES — DlURN^E. 
FALCONIDJE. 
Genus Falco. (Linnaus.J 
Sub-genus Falco, (Bechstein.) Hypotriorchis, (Boir.J 
Dissodactes, ( 'Sclater.J 
ELEONORA FALCON. 
Falco eleonorce. 
Falco eleonorce, Gene; Icon, della Acad. Torino, 1840. 
" " Ch. Bonaparte; Iconografia della 
Fauna Italica. 
" " SCHLEGEL. DEGLAND. 
Specific Characters. — Plumage of a black chesnut-colour; beak robust, the 
upper mandible being straight from the base to the tooth; cere bluish. 
Wings much longer than the tail; internal toe shorter than the external. — 
Prince Ch. Bonaparte, in Fauna Italica. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male in Norwich Museum fourteen inches. 
Length of wing eleven inches. 
We are indebted to Signor Alberto della Marmora for the introduc- 
tion of this beautiful Falcon into the European Fauna. In 1836 he 
saw it on the wing on the Sardinian coast, and suspected from the 
peculiarity of its cry, that it was an unobserved species. In conjunc- 
tion with the celebrated naturalist, M. Gene, a sharp look-out was kept 
up to obtain a specimen, in which they did not for some time succeed. 
Marmora at length obtained a female bird, which Gene declared to be 
a species new to science, and named it after the Queen Eleonora. In 
1840 Gene published an account of this bird in the "Memoirs of the 
Academy of Turin," and discovered another species in the Museum of 
Turin, killed at Beyrout, and one killed in the vicinity of Genoa, in 
the collection of the Marquis C. Darazzo — which last bird proved to 
