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remark to offer about the plumage of an immature female, 
killed on the 22nd of April at Bellianeh. In colour it was 
adark brown above; and below was marked with broad 
longitudinal streaks of the same, moreover had none of 
the luteous crown, except one or two very small feathers, 
It was remarkably small for a hen bird, measuring only 16§ 
inches long, tarsus 2, wing 123. We all hoped it might 
turn out to be a Barbary Falcon, but my father has carefully 
examined and identified it. There is a match for it in the 
.Norwich Museum; and I saw another, only rather larger, 
but in similar dark plumage, in the great hall at Karnak; 
so for the present it stands as a Lanner. 
The adult Lanners found in Egypt sometimes vary con- 
siderably from the ordinary type, by presenting a deeper 
tone of coloration especially on the upper parts, thus ap- 
proaching the darker race which is found in Nubia and 
Abyssinia, and which by some naturalists has been treated 
as specifically distinct, under the name of F. tanypterus. 
In the case of an adult pair, shot by my companion and 
myself whilst flying together from the same tree, on the 
12th of April, in the neighbourhood of Esné, the female was 
of the ordinary type of coloration, whilst the male was 
much darker on all the upper surface except the tail; the 
head, nape, and upper interscapulary feathers, being even 
quite as deeply coloured as in the adult of &. tanypterus. 
SAKER FALcon, Falko saker, Schlegel. 
I believe this Falcon was also seen, but as no specimen 
was shot, I could not identify it with certainty. 
My father thinks that Von Heuglin may have con- 
founded Falco babylonicus, Gurney, which he calls 
“tolerably common,” with the rufous phase of 
F, barbarus. 
