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any evidence that the above-mentioned figure was taken from a Chilian 

 specimen, though the inference is that this was the case ; but if the 

 figure is intended for the bird I call F. cassini, it is not a good 

 likeness at all. Until an examination of the types has taken place 

 I prefer to continue my nomenclature of these American birds, 

 though I would not now separate specifically the eastern and western 

 Peregrines of North America. 



Another point remaining to be cleared up is the identity of Falco 

 atriceps of Hume. This I was inclined formerly to refer to F. micrunts 

 of Hodgson, a species which I would not now separate fi'om the ordi- 

 nary F, coDwiunis. But Mr. Blanford informs me that his impression 

 is that Mr. Hume's F. atriceps is the bird named by me F. pere- 

 grinator, the true F. peregvhiator being a Falcon from Central and 

 [Southern India, not at present represented in the Museum collection, 

 and probably unknown to European naturalists. As, however, the 

 bird I call F. perer/rinator is undoubtedly the one thus named in 

 other European museums, I must retain that title until I have the 

 opportunity of examining named specimens of F. atnceps. 



2. Falco peregrinator. 



Falco peregrinator, Sundev. Phi/siogr. Tidsskr. Lund, 1837, p. 177, 

 pi. 4 (descr. on'r/.) ; Gray, Grew, of B. i. p. 19 (1844) ; Sundev. Ann. 

 N. H, xviii. p. 454 (1846) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^- B. Nepal Hodgs. 

 p. 44 (1846) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Bcng. p. 14 (1849) ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 28 (1850) ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 65; Gould, 

 B. of Asia, part iii. (1851) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xix. p. 321 (1851) ; 

 Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536 ; Stricld. Orn. Syn. p. 84 

 (1855) ; Jerd. B. of Lid. i. p. 25 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 8 ; 

 Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 19 (1869) ; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 55 

 (1869) ; Jerd. litis, 1870, p. 237 ; Sharpe, Ann. N. H. (4j xi. 

 p. 223 (1873). 



Falco shaheen, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 81 (1839) ; id. III. Ind. Orn. 

 pis. xii. & xxviii. (1847) ; Feb. Verh. z.-h. Wien, xiii. p. 610 (1863). 



Falco sultaneus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 



Falco ruber, ScU. Mus. P.-B. Falc. p. 5 (1862). 



Adult female. Head, neck, interscapulary region, and wing- 

 coverts deep black, with a shade of bluish grey on the latter ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright bluish grey, the last with 

 a few nearly obsolete blackish cross markings ; quills black, exter- 

 nally washed with greyish, the inner web with a few nearly obsolete 

 rufous bars, the secondaries tipped with fulvous ; tail bluish grey, 

 darker towards the tip, which is tawny, the blackish bars nowhere 

 very distinct ; a frontal line of feathers slightly whitish ; sides of 

 the face black, the hinder ear-coverts and sides of neck creamy 

 white, tinged with rufous, which tinge is also apparent on the nape : 

 under surface deep tawny ferruginous, paler towards the throat, 

 with a few spots and cross bars of black on the flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts deep rufous, barred across 

 with black ; axillaries brown, \vith oval spots of buff ; cere yellow ; 



