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Rapacres— Diurne. 
FALCONID. 
Genus—Fatco. (Linneus.) 
Sub-genus—F aco. (Bechstein. ) 
ELEONORA FALCON. 
Falco Eleonore. 
Falco Eleonore, Géné, Icon. della Acad. 
Torino., 1840. 
Cu. Bonaparte; Iconografia 
della Fauna Italica. 
bs és ScHLEGEL; Revue, 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 Cu. 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 
