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1 ^21.] Birds of Lower Egypt. 
126. Falco peregrinus pelegrinoid.es . Barbary Falcon. 
Mr. M. J. Nicoll and myself saw a pair of Barbary 
Falcons feeding young in a nest on the Dahshur Pyramids 
on 12 April, 1918. The site was about sixty feet up on the 
eastern slope and in an impossible place to examine. The 
Egyptian riots prevented me looking it up again in 1919. 
[On 28 March, 1909, I took three fresh eggs from a low 
ledge on the Dahshur Pyramid. The eggs are decidedly 
smaller than those of the Lanner, averaging 49 ’7 X 38' 1 mm. 
in size, and in appearance not unlike Hobby's eggs.—R. S.] 
127. Falco biarmicus tanypterus. Lanner Falcon. 
Seen occasionally perching on our tall wireless masts : 
usually in the autumn. Captain W. Bigger found a nest on 
which the bird was sitting, on an inaccessible ledge in the 
cliffs behind the Citadel in Cairo, on 30 March, 1917, and 
another in the Moqattam Hills, which probably contained 
young birds, on 5 April, 1917. I found no trace of its 
breeding on the Great Pyramids. 
[Used to breed annually on the north side of the second 
Pyramid at Giza, from which place I had four young on 
30 April, 1893. In 1894 I took a clutch of four eggs, slightly 
incubated, on 18 March, from the same place. Three of 
these eggs are like dark Kestrel’s eggs in type, the fourth 
plum-coloured. Average size 52'7 x 43*2 mm.—R. S.] 
128. Falco concolor. Sooty Falcon. 
On 18 April, 1918, a Sooty Falcon was observed near 
the Birket Accrashi, and was still in the same vicinity on 
20 April. I shot a fine immature bird at Abu Zabaal on 
6 August, 1918 : it was chasing some Hooded Crows at the 
time. Major F. W. Borman obtained some information 
about this species breeding near Solium, on the Mediter¬ 
ranean seaboard, but the full particulars are not yet to hand. 
129. Falco subbuteo. Hobby. 
Seen sparingly in the winter months. One shot on 
19 October, 1916, at the Birket Accrashi. 
