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conjunction 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 Mar- 

 quis C. Darazzo — which last bird proved to be the 

 male of his Eleonora. Since then it has been beau 

 tifully figured and described at length by Prince 

 Charles Bonaparte, in that splendid work, the "Icono- 

 grafia della Fauna Italica." 



There are two specimens in the Norwich Museum, 

 supplied to Mr. Gurney by M. Verreaux. 



M. Temminck, in his Manuel d' Ornithologie," 

 described, and after him, Mr. Gould figured and des- 

 cribed the Falco concolor as a European species. M. 

 Schlegel, however, in his "Revue," in 1844, and other 

 writers since, have considered that M. Temminck con- 

 founded specimens of the Eleonora Falcon with those 

 of F. concolor ; and they founded this opinion chiefly 

 upon the want of confirmation, since Temminck's last 

 edition of the "Manual" in 1840, of the latter bird 

 having been ever taken in Europe. M. Yon der Miihle 

 mentions, however, that it has occurred in Greece, 

 though Schlegel thinks he has mistaken it for the bird 

 I am now noticing. Whether F. concolor is a European 

 species or not, future observation must decide, but of 

 this there can be no doubt — that the species are totally 

 distinct; and it is hardly likely that such good orni- 

 thologists as Temminck and Gould could have confounded 



