Experts recognize 17 to 19 subspecies which vary in appearance and range ; there is disagreement over whether the distinctive Barbary Falcon is represented by two subspecies of Falco peregrinus, or is a separate species, F. pelegrinoides.

Numerous subspecies of Falco peregrinus have been described, with 19 accepted by the 1994 Handbook of the Birds of the World, which considers the Barbary Falcon of the Canary Islands and coastal north Africa to be two subspecies ( pelegrinoides and babylonicus ) of Falco peregrinus, rather than a distinct species, F. pelegrinoides.

If the Barbary Falcon ( see below ) is considered a distinct species, it is sometimes placed therein.

Two of the subspecies listed above ( Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides and F. p. babylonicus ) are often instead treated together as a distinct species, Falco pelegrinoides ( Barbary Falcon ), although they were included within F. peregrinus in the 1994 Handbook of the Birds of the World.

The Barbary Falcon has a peculiar way of flying, beating only the outer part of its wings like fulmars sometimes do ; this also occurs in the Peregrine, but less often and far less pronounced.

Barbary Falcons breed at different times of year than neighboring Peregrine Falcon subspecies, but there are no postzygotic reproduction barriers in place.

* Falco pelegrinoides Barbary Falcon

The Barbary Falcon ( Falco pelegrinoides ) is a medium-sized falcon about the size of a crow.

The Barbary Falcon is similar to the Peregrine Falcon, but smaller at 33 – 39 cm length with a wingspan of 76 – 98 cm.

The Barbary Falcon also bears some resemblance to the Lanner Falcon, but can be distinguished from that species at rest by the head-pattern, and in flight, by the proportions, flight action and underwing pattern.

The Barbary Falcon differ in appearance from the Peregrine Falcon according to Gloger's Rule.

* Clark, William S. and Hadoram Shirihai ( 1995 ) Identification of Barbary Falcon Birding World 8 ( 9 ): 336-343

* Schollaert, Valéry ; Willem, Gilles ( 2000 ) Taxonomy of the Peregrine Falco peregrinus / Barbary Falcon F. ( peregrinus ) pelegrinoides complex in Morocco Bulletin of the African Bird Club 7 ( 2 ): 101-103

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Othello is referred to as a “ Barbary horse ” ( 1. 1. 113 ) and a “ lascivious Moor ” ( 1. 1. 127 ).

The Austrian ambassador Busbecq would note " Suleiman has among his children a son called Mustafa, marvellously well educated and prudent and of an age to rule, since he is 24 or 25 years old ; may God never allow a Barbary of such strength to come near us ", going on to talk of Mustafa's " remarkable natural gifts ".

Barbary Coast of North Africa 1806. map left is Morocco at Gilbraltar, center map isTunis ; right, Tripoli stretches east

* The First Barbary War ( 1801 – 1805 ) is fought between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa.

* October 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.

It is believed, that those lions, which were imported to Europe until the middle of the 19th century, were mainly Barbary lions from North Africa or lions from the Cape.

It is extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting, as the last wild Barbary lion was killed in Morocco in 1922.

From one side the land on the other is visible ; and the cape of this region about 60 miles away, much as if one were sailing eastward through the Straits of Gibraltar or Seville and Barbary or Morocco in Africa, as our Globe shows toward the Antarctic Pole.

* 1797-Treaty of Tripoli ; treaty with Barbary state of Tripoli approved unanimously by Senate and signed into law by President John Adams on June 10 ; states U. S. is not regarded as Christian nation

In 1779, Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary Wars, was born at Sinepuxent, near what is today the town of Berlin.

This county is named after naval hero Stephen Decatur, Jr., who gained national recognition in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812 by his leadership and achievements at sea.

It is named for Edward Preble, a naval officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and against the Barbary Pirates.

It is named for the Navy war hero Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., who served during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.

North Beach is bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, the Financial District south of Broadway, Chinatown to the southwest of Columbus below Green Street, Russian Hill to the west, Telegraph Hill to the east and Fisherman's Wharf at Bay Street to the north.

In 1882 the New York Times reported that " the Bird Cage Theatre is the wildest, wickedest night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast.

Decatur is named after Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., an early 19th-century American naval officer renowned for his exploits in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.

While there are certainly shortcomings in Livezey's analysis, mtDNA is an unreliable source for phylogenetic information in many waterfowl ( especially dabbling ducks ) due to their ability to produce fertile hybrids, in rare cases possibly even beyond the level of genus ( see for example the " Barbary Duck ").

Thus the Barbary macaque, a kind of monkey, is popularly called the " Barbary ape " to indicate its lack of a tail.

Honigmann discusses the view that Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, Moorish ambassador of the Arab King of Barbary to Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, was one inspiration for Othello.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

After the First Barbary War, the European nations had been engaged in warfare with one another ( and the U. S. with the British ).

France moved to occupy Tunisia, one of the last of the Barbary Pirate states under the pretext of another Islamic terror and piracy incident.

Eaton countered that the $ 10, 000 was, in fact, reimbursement for money he spent in the Barbary War ( which one source contends was less than what he was owed ).

Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small population, of unknown origin, in Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.

Similar raids were undertaken from Bou Regreg and Salé and other ports in Morocco, but strictly speaking Morocco, which never came under Ottoman dominance, was not one of the Barbary States.

He is regarded as one of the most important Barbary corsairs.

Further success soon enabled him to become the captain and owner of a galley, and he gained a reputation as one of the boldest corsair reis on the Barbary Coast.

He became one of the six original commodores of the permanent United States Navy, and commanded a blockade of Tripoli in 1801 during the First Barbary War of Thomas Jefferson's presidency.

Due to the signing of a peace treaty with Algiers, one of the Barbary nations, which created some stability in the Mediterranean, construction on the frigate was halted.

A full-size " prop " locomotive used for scenes in the locomotive cab was said to have been furnished by: " Barbary Coast Hoyt Hotel ", Portland, Oregon ( data given at start of one of the shows, episode 147 ).

Nonetheless, genes of the Barbary lion are likely to be present in common European zoo lions, since this was one of the most frequently introduced subspecies.

Moreover, the Cèdre Gouraud Forest in the Middle Atlas Mountain Range is named for Gouraud ; this forest is one of the few remaining habitats of the endangered Barbary Macaque.

The Battle of Andros took place on 22 August 1696 southeast of the Greek island of Andros between the fleets of the Republic of Venice and the Papal States under Bartolomeo Contarini on the one side and the Ottoman Navy, under Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha, and allied Barbary forces on the other.

The nearby Chiffa gorge is a habitat of the endangered Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus ; this habitat is one of only a few relict locations where populations of this primate are found.

This locale offers one of the few remaining disjunctive habitats for the endangered Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, a primate species which prehistorically held a much wider range.

Tetraclinis ( also called arar, araar or Sictus tree ) is a genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Tetraclinis articulata, also known as Thuja articulata, sandarac, sandarac tree or Barbary thuja, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.