160 Mr. J. H. Guruey on 



being that the true F. barbarus docs not extend its range so 

 far eastward as India. 



Falco bubylonicus, on the contrary, appears to be a regular 

 winter visitor to Northern India, and especially to the north- 

 western portions of that country. 



Of the Indian examples of this Falcon that I have examined, 

 five are recorded as having been obtained in November, six in 

 December, eight in January, two in February, and two in 

 March, of which last-named specimens one was an immature 

 male, shot by Col. E. A. Butler at Hyderabad, in Sind, on 9th 

 March, 1878, and the other an immature female, obtained at 

 Peshawur on 31st March, 1869. The earliest autumnal 

 example in the series is an adult male shot by Mr. Doig at 

 Ahmedabad, Guzerat, on 5th November, 1885. 



The following dates are recorded of specimens of Falco 

 habylonicus collected beyond the Indian frontier, and now 

 preserved in the British Museum : — An adult female killed 

 near Kelat, in October 1876 ; an adult female obtained by- 

 Sir O. St. John at Kandahar, 14th February, 1871 ; an adult 

 female obtained at Samarcand, 5th March; an adult female 

 purchased by Dr. Scully at Yarkand, 6th March, 1875 ; an 

 immature male obtained by Dr. Scully at Gulgun Shab, 

 Eastern Turkestan, 37th August, 1875. The last and two 

 young females (one fj'om Kashgar, marked 13th December, 

 1874, and the other from Yarkand, marked 26th February, 

 1875) were apparently procured alive by Dr. Scully, probably 

 having been brought up from the nest ; and Dr. Scully, re- 

 ferring to these specimens in ' Stray Feathers ' for 1876, 

 p. 118 (under the name of F. barbarus), remarks, "this 

 Falcon is said to inhabit the hills of Kizil-tagh and Kugiar, 

 and to breed there in summer.'^ 



The most western Asiatic specimen of F. babylonicus that 

 I have seen is the female in change from immature to adult 

 dress, which was procured long ago in Babylonia by Com- 

 mander Jones, and which suggested the specific name that I 

 subsequently proposed for this Falcon; but it is probable 

 that Falco bubylonicus is also sometimes found, though very 

 rarely, so far west as North-eastern Africa. The Norwich 



