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Hemisphere from Lapland to the Cape of Good 
Hope; whilst from east to west there is scarcely a 
country from California to Japan which does not con- 
tribute. This is certainly one of the most interesting 
of the birds of prey, whether we regard it in the light 
of its beauty, courage, wide distribution, or of the 
romance attaching to it as the favourite of the 
falconer in days gone by. ‘The remaining Falcons 
are also noble birds, fierce yet docile, and formerly | 
greatly valued by falconers in various parts of the 
world. There are the Barbary and Babylonian 
Falcons, the Lanner and the Saker; also the Gyr 
Falcon, the Iceland, and the Greenland Falcons, of 
which there are lovely specimens in this case, and eggs 
of each; also in small Cases, Nos. 9 and 10. Of both 
the Greenland and the Iceland Falcons there are 
British-killed specimens in the collection. the former 
killed near Cromer, and the latter in Rosshire. 
Case XXX. 
The next group which claims our attention is rather 
an extensive one, comprising, according to Mr. 
Gurney’s arrangement, four genera, known as Buz- 
zards. They are imposing-looking birds, as a rule 
much smaller than the Eagles, slow and heavy in 
flight, deficient in courage as compared with the 
Falcons, and feeding chiefly on the smaller mammals, 
reptiles, and insects. They are found to inhabit nearly 
the whole world, with the exception of the Australian 
region. One species, the so-called Common Buzzard, 
was really at the beginning of the present century 
common in Britain, but notwithstanding its harmless 
or even beneficial character, it has fallen under the 
ban of the game preserver, and is doomed. Small 
Case, No. 12, contains nestling specimens of this bird, 
