136 
Col. K. Meinertzliagen on the [Ibis, 
Caprimulgus europaeus meridionalis Hartert. 
A male obtained at 2000 feet on 13 June was the only 
one seen. Tre v or-Batty e (‘Camping in Crete ') saw them 
frequently in summer. 
Cretan name “ arno vysastra,” a literal translation of 
Goat-sucker. 
Otus scops powelli Meinertz. 
Otus scops powelli Meinertzhagen, Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, 
p. 21 : Candia District. 
This new race, intermediate between the typical form and 
O. s. cypriiis , was common from coast-level to 2000 feet, and 
a few were heard in the Ilex forest at 4000 feet. Two 
clutches of eggs were taken from holes in buildings on 
13 and 15 June, the former consisting of four incubated 
eggs, and the latter of two fresh and one incubated egg. 
Birds were frequently heard calling by daylight, and it 
was not difficult at dusk to call them to quite close quarters. 
Falco peregrinus subsp. ? 
A small Peregrine was twice seen in the hills, but none 
were obtained. 
Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus L. 
I obtained two breeding males, with wings measuring 223 
and 245 mm. respectively. One of these birds is much 
redder below than most European birds, whilst the other is 
normal. 1 have recently examined a series of 157 Kestrels, 
and I find that in the southern part of their breeding range 
birds tend to become more red below than those breeding 
in central and northern Europe and Asia, though, of course, 
such red birds occur frequently in both the British Islands 
and throughout Europe. I am going fully into this question 
at a near date, but all that concerns us for the moment is 
that the Cretan breeding bird can only be referred to the 
typical form. 
Kestrels were seen everywhere in small numbers. Two 
nests, both with half-grown young, were found in buildings. 
In both cases the cock bird was feeding the chicks, visiting 
