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FALCON I D^. 



4. Kultuk, Lake Baikal, .Siberia, 24th Crowley Bequest. 



May. 

 4. Yenesei River, 70^° N. lat., 14th Seebohm Coll. 



July {H. Seehohm). 



Falco peregrinator, Sundev. 

 (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) 



Falco atiiceps, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. pp. 377, 378 (1874) ; Oates 



ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs hid. B. iii. p. 185 (1890). 

 Falco peieprinator, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 382 (1874); Legye, 



Birds Ceylon, p. 106 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests 4" Et^gs Ind. 



B. iii. p." 184 (1890); Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 4lo 



(1895) ; SharjM, Hand-l. i. p. 273 (1899). 



The five eggs of the Shahin Falcon which are in the Collection 

 have been described in detail by Mr. Hume (I. c). Four of these, 

 although differing in many respects from each other, can be matched 

 by eggs of the Peregrine Falcon. The fifth, taken by Mr. F. R. 

 Elewitt at Raipur, is peculiar. In shape it is a narrow oval. The 

 ground is pinkish cream-colour, and this is delicately speckled and 

 spotted all over with deep reddish brown, the markings being 

 larger at the broad end than elsewhere. There are, in addition, 

 some small clouds of pale lilac-grey scattered over the shell. Five 

 examples measure respectively : 1-9 bv 1-55 ; 2"05 by 1"6 ; 1*95 

 by 1-6 ; 1-89 by 1-55 ; 1-96 by 1-4. 



1. Uhurmsala, Himalayas, 12th March Hume Coll. 



(C. It. Cock). 



2. Kulu, Himalayas, 3rd Feb. Hume Coll. 

 1. Kulu, 6th Feb. Hume Coll. 



1. Raipur, Central Provinces, 25th Hume Coll. 



.Ian. [F. R. BlewUt). 



Falco melanogenys, Gould. 



Falco melanogenys, Gonld, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 26 (1865) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 385 (1874); North, Nests ^ Fgi/s Austr. 

 Birds, p. 16, pi. iii. tig. 4 (1889); Le Souef, Ibis, 1895, p. 422; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 274 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests iS" Fggs Austr. 

 Birds, i. p. 31, pi. 4 (1901). 



The eggs of the Black-cheeked Falcon are mostly of an elongated 

 narrow oval form, but otherwise resemble those of the Peregrine 

 Falcon. They measure from 2 to 2-2 in length, and from 1*45 to 

 1-6 in breadth. 



2. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 

 1. West Australia, Oct. (&'../. ^os^ocA: ; Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 

 2. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



