170 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



Islands, Ceylon, Andamaus, Greater and Lesser Siinda Islands, the Molnccas 

 and New Guinea, Japan and China as far sonth as Hainan and Formosa. It 

 occurs also in small nnmbers in Africa Minor : there is a fine specimen from 

 Tunisia in Koenig's Collection in Bonn, and F. W. Riggenbach shot another in 

 the district of Halia, sonth of Mogador in West Marocco, on November 20, 1905, 

 where it is said to be known as a rare and precious bird to the falconers. 



3. Falco peregrinus anatum Bp. 



Falco anatum Bonaparte, Gengr. & Comp. List, p. 4 (lS:i8— Now Jersey). 



North America from Alaska and Greenland to South Carolina ; in winter the 

 West Indian Islands, Panama, and South America. Twice in England. 



It is, however, not quite certain that all North American Peregrines belong to 

 one and the same race. I wish to call attention to the possible occurrence of a 

 smaller and lighter race in the southern states, because an adult ? from Texas does 

 not well agree with others, and migrants from South America differ perhaps more 

 in size than we find to be the case in Enrope and Asia. 



4. Falco peregrinus brookei Sharpe. 



Fako Brii'ikei Sharpe, Ann. it May. Nat. Hist. (4) .\i. p. 21 (1873— Sardinia. Type collected by 



A. B. Brooke, in Brit. Mus.) 

 Falco caiicasir.ns Kleinschmidt, Fako iii. p. 62 (KI07— N.E. Caucasus). 



(This is the Falai jinnicns of various authors. It is most beautifully figured in Irby's Orn. 



Strait.^ iif (ribraltiir, pi. opposite p. 191, under the name "Mediterranean Falcon.") 



This is a small Peregrine with dark and bright underside. The amount of slat}' 

 black barring varies a good deal, as in all Peregrines ; sometimes tlie male is closely 

 barred from the under tail-coverts to the crop-region, which itself is spotted with 

 black ; the sides and thighs are very light though distinctly grey, and the middle of 

 the under-surface with a reddish or creamy-red tinge. Sometimes the barring is 

 scarce, and in that case the reddish colour of the underside is very dark and bright, 

 while the sides are rather paler greyish. From F. p. pdeyrinoidcs this bird is 

 distinguished at a glance by the darker upperside, greyish sides, heavier barred 

 and spotted under-surface and slightly larger size. 



This bird inhabits Spain (how far north I am unable to say), the northern 

 peninsnla of Marocco, Corsica, Sardinia, doubtless the Balearic Isles ; and most 

 probably the Falcons nesting on Elba, Monte Christo and other Mediterranean 

 islands belong to brookei, probably also the birds nesting on Sardinia and in parts 

 of South Italy. It also occurs in South France, for there is at least one very 

 tine adnlt male from the neighbourhood in the museum at Marseilles, but whether 

 it. nests there or occurs only as a straggler, I am unable to saj'. It has been 

 obtained in North Tunisia, as there is a tine example in Koenig's collection, and 

 Giglioli and Whitaker mention Tunisian specimens, the latter, however, only 

 immature ones. As F. p. pelegriiwides appears to nest in Algeria and Tunisia 

 up to the Northern Atlas range (at least on the Djebel Taya and elsewhere in 

 Eastern Algeria) our F. p. brookei can, in my opinion, only be a somewhat 

 rare straggler in the country. Eastwards brookei ranges through Malta, Greece, 

 I'yprns, Rliodes, and Asia Minor to the Caucasus. The type of F. caucasicus 

 Kleuischm. agrees perfectly with Spanish and Sardinian examples. The Asia Minor 

 birds were considered by Dresser to belong to " F, m'lioi;" but later on he 



