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Rap aces — Diurnae. 

 FALCONIDjE. 



Genus Falco. ( Linnceus.J 

 Sub-genus Falco. ( Bechstein.) 



ELEONOEA FALCON. 



Falco eleonorce. 



Falco eleonorce, Gene; Icon, della Acad. 



Torino, 1840. 

 " " Ch. Bonaparte; Iconografia 



della Fauna Italica. 

 " " Schlegel; Eevue, 1844. 



" " 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 introduction 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 



