38 LANNER FALCON. 
name has been given to the Peregrine, the Ger-Falcon, 
the Sacer, and other birds, even by systematic writers. 
We are indebted to M. Schlegel for applying the right 
name to the right bird, and for drawing that distinc- 
tion between this and the preceding species, which 
must in future prevent any mistake. 
There are few naturalists who have correctly distin- 
guished this bird. Schlegel considers that Naumann 
and Buffon have represented the true Lanner, killed 
at the beginning of the first moult, but they have 
taken it for the young of the Peregrine. The Lanner 
of Linneus and Nillson he thinks is identical with the 
Ger-Falcon of Norway. ‘The bird described by Pennant 
as this species, appears to be the young of the 
Peregrine. Schlegel himself, in his “Zoology,” described 
as new to science, a Falcon under the name of Falco 
Feldeggii, which upon more attentive examination he 
became convinced was no other than the bird known 
to Falconers, and first described by Belon, so long 
back as 1555, in his “Hist. de la Nat. des Oiseaux,” 
as the true Lanner, the subject of the present notice. 
There is a specimen in the Museum of Mayence, 
of a young bird, killed at Hanau, which has consid- 
erable resemblance to the Falco Biarmicus of 'Temminck, 
but is distinguished by the colour as well as by 
the first quill feather bemg longer in the Lanner. The 
only Falcon for which it can be mistaken is the Pere- 
grine, and here the likeness is considerable, but it may 
be readily distinguished by the greater proportionate 
length of its tail, by the toes being shorter, by the 
moustache (the dark longitudinal mark on the side of 
the head and neck) being less, by the feathers of the 
inferior parts being larger and softer, by the reddish 
colour of the nape, and by the absence of the 
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