. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . seen in the splendidcollection of the Norwich Museum. We are unable to give a figure, from an authenticsource, of this egg. 44 Rap aces — Genus—Falco. (Linnceus.)Sub-genus—Falco. ( Bechstein.) ELEONORA FALCON. Falco Eleonoree. Falco Eleonorcr, Gene, Icon, della Acad. Torino., 1840. Ch. Bonaparte; Iconografia della Fauna Italica. Schlegel; Eevue, 1844. Degland. Specific Characters.—Plumage of a black chesnut-colour; beakrobust, the upper mandible being straight from the base to thetooth; cere bluish. Win
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . seen in the splendidcollection of the Norwich Museum. We are unable to give a figure, from an authenticsource, of this egg. 44 Rap aces — Genus—Falco. (Linnceus.)Sub-genus—Falco. ( Bechstein.) ELEONORA FALCON. Falco Eleonoree. Falco Eleonorcr, Gene, Icon, della Acad. Torino., 1840. Ch. Bonaparte; Iconografia della Fauna Italica. Schlegel; Eevue, 1844. Degland. Specific Characters.—Plumage of a black chesnut-colour; beakrobust, the upper mandible being straight from the base to thetooth; cere bluish. Wings much longer than the tail; internaltoe shorter than the external.—Prince Ch. Bonaparte, in FaunaItalica. Measurement.—Length of adult male in Norwich Museumfourteen inches. Length of wing eleven inches. We arc indebted to Signor Alberto della Marmorafor the introduction of this beautiful Falcon into theEuropean Fauna. In 1836 he saw it on the wing onthe Sardinian coast, and suspected from the peculiarityof its cry, that it was an unobserved species. In. E L E C N C B A !• A L C 1 ELEONORA FALCON. 45 conjunction with the celebrated naturalist, M. Gene, asharp look-out was kept up to obtain a specimen,in which they did not for some time succeed. Marmoraat length obtained a female bird, which Gene declaredto be a species new to science, and named it afterthe Queen Eleonora. In 1840 Gene published anaccount of this bird in the Memoirs of the Academyof Turin, and discovered another species in theMuseum of Turin, killed at Beyrout, and one killedin the vicinity of Genoa, in the collection of the Mar-quis C. Darazzo—which last bird proved to be themale of his Eleonora. Since then it has been beau-tifully figured and described at length by PrinceCharles Bonaparte, in that splendid work, the Icono-grafia della Fauna Italica. There are two specimens in the Norwich Museum,supplied to Mr. Gumey by M. Verreaux. M. Temminck, in his Manuel d Ornithologie,described, and afte
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