LINNEAN OENUS FAI,CO, 



I trust that the few observations which I have 

 made, may be of use in calling the attention of 

 others to the study of a tribe of birds, whose his- 

 tory is the most obscure and problematical within 

 the range of ornithological science. 



I am now of opinion that the F, harharus and F. tartaricus, 

 are the same variety. Buffon seems to have considered them 

 as such, and in the old work before mentioned, there is the 

 following passage : " The Barbary, or, as some call her, the 

 Tartar et Falcon^ is a bird seldom found in any country, and is 

 called a passenger, as well as the Haggard." " They are called 

 Barbary Falcons because they make their passage through that 

 country and Tunis, where they are more frequently taken than 

 in any other place, namely, in the Isles of the Levant, Candy, 

 Cyprus and Rhodes." (^Gentleman's Recreation^ p. 124.) 



To the other varieties of the Common Falcon, CuviEa has 

 added the F. stellaris of Gm. 



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