1 ' "1 NOVITATES ZoOLOClCiE XXIf. 1915. 



and the black readies farther backwards. Uninp and upper tail-covert.s are still 

 more distinctly and more sharply barred with black. The sides of the head 

 are almost black, as in F. />. pereyrhuis. The young birds which I have examined 

 are underneath white, with a faint yellowish tinge, and with wide, sharjjly 

 defined black longitudinal streaks. An adult male from East Madagascar (Tring) 

 has the wings 2S9 and 285 mm. An adult male from West Madagascar, 

 Voeltzkow coll., 30. iv. 1891, in the Berlin Museum, has the wings, according 

 to Neumann, 2T0 mm. There are also young birds collected by Hildebrandt 

 and by the late Rev. Wills, in the Berlin and Tring Museums, and I have seen 

 others iu Paris. 



9. Falco peregrinus peregriuator Sund. 



Falcn pei-fgrinatoi- Suadevall, Plii/slogr. Siil/skapels TkUkr. Ltiml i. p. 177, pi. 4 (1837 caught 



under (i° 20' north lat. at sea between Ceylon and Sumatra, 70 Swedish miles from the 

 Nicobar I<iliinds). 



For synonyms see Vug. pal. Faumi ii. p. li);"il, where also a short description 

 is given. 



Forests of India, east to South China. 



10. Falco peregrinus ernesti Sharpe. 



Falco ernesH Sharpe, Ihia 1894, p. 045 (Borneo, collected by Mr. Ernest Hose). 



This is the darkest of all Peregrines. The top of the head, sides of head 

 and back are deep bluish-black, the underside of adult birds is closely barred 

 with black. 



This beautiful race is found and appears to breed on the greater Sunda 

 Islands, the Philippines and New Guinea. Cf. anted, p. 49. Birds from Java 

 are either F. p. calidns in winter quarters, or ernesti, but certainly not " melano- 

 genys.'" 



Peregrines have also been collected on the Fiji Islands, in New Caledonia, 

 and on the New Hebrides. If they were resident on those groups, a series of 

 adult birds would perhaps show them to difler from their allies, but thev are more 

 likely only stragglers of " inelanogeni/s," or maybe of ernesti ; young birds are 

 very dark. Dr. Sarasin did not come across Peregrines in New Caledonia, but 

 Layard obtained specimens on the east and west coast (Sarasin, Die Yijqel 

 ^eu-Caledoniens luulder Loi/altg-fnseln, p. 9, 1913). 



11. Falco peregrinus macropus Swains. 



Falco macropus Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 341 (January 1838— Tasmania). 



Falco nielatingenys Gould, Si/nojix. B. Austral, pt. iii. pi. 42 and text (April 1838 — ''Australia 

 generally." — Mathews, List B. Australia, p. Ill, says " Tasmania," but Gould says distinctly 

 "Australia generally," and also in the contemporary description in Proc. Zunl. Sue. Lumlon, 

 part V. 1837, p. 13'J, jiublished in December 1838, he saj's, '' Hab. per totam Australiam." 

 Mi\ Mathews can therefore not say " Tasmania." If, in some way, he has found out that 

 Gould's type — though he probably had a number of specimens from various parts of Australia — 

 came from Tasmania, he must quote " ' Australia generally,' which is erroneous, as Gould had 

 only one skin from Tasmania, as shown in such and such a way "). 



This well-known form is not rare in several portions of Australia and 

 Tasmania. I must say that I am not thoronghly convinced that Swainson's 

 description is that of a Peregrine. 



