LANNER FALCON. 4] 
the Falcon on the nose of a stuffed gazelle. When 
they are thus educated they take them out, and letting 
two fly at once, one immediately rushes down upon 
the nose of the poor gazelle and fixes therein its claws; 
of course the animal is alarmed, and stopping, uses 
every effort to shake off the bird; but the beating of 
its wings almost blinds the poor creature, and bewilders 
it still more. When the first bird is shaken off the 
other takes its place, and thus the dogs have plenty of 
time to come up. This same plan is said to be used 
m taking the wild boar and wild ass. 
The plumage of the young Lanner resembles that of 
the young Saker, with the followimg exceptions:—The 
markings of the feathers on the top of the head are 
not so broad; the whitish colours of the edges of these 
feathers predominate. The reddish tint of the nape is 
more “‘prononcé.” ‘The light edges of the upper parts 
of the bird are less distinct, and not so brown as 
in the Saker: on the contrary, these parts are covered 
with small spots of a very pale red brown irregularly 
scattered here and there—subject to variety in different 
birds. The ground colour of the tail is paler than in 
the Saker, but it is always broken as much upon the 
external as the internal barbs of the tail quills, by 
transverse bands, to the number of eleven or twelve, 
the colour of which incomplete bands is like that of 
the markings upon the wings. The spots upon the 
superior parts of the bird are smaller than in the 
Saker. The lesser wing coverts have dark longitudinal 
markings, the least covered with whitish spots, generally 
of an orbicular form; on the greater coverts these spots 
are transverse and arranged in bands. 
In adult plumage the tints of the Lanner have some 
analogy to those of the Peregrine and Jer-Falcon, but 
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