ELEONORA FALCON. 45 
conjunction with the celebrated naturalist, M. Géné, 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 Géné declared 
to be a species new to science, and named it after 
the Queen Eleonora. In 1840 Géné 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- 
eribed 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. Von der Mihle 
mentions, however, that it has occurred in Greece, 
though Schlegel thinks he has mistaken it for the bird 
I am now noticmg. 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 
