28.2 M. Menzbier on the Birds of Europemi 



of Warsaw. The same variety of the Peregrine Falcon was 

 obtained by Colonel Prejevalsky in the country about the 

 river Ussuri ; but in IMandshuria it is replaced by the other 

 variety, which is nearly as dark as Falco melanogenys. It is 

 the same race, which, according to Messrs. Middendorff, 

 Finsch, and Russov, breeds on the ground in the tundra 

 and in the marshes of the wooded country of Livonia. 

 Probably F. p. griseiventris breeds throughout the whole 

 tundra and wooded country (" forest ") from Greenland to 

 the Amoor country, migrating during the winter more south- 

 wards, as far as the Antilles, Southern Europe, Egypt, and 

 India. Specimens of this race from Greenland, the An- 

 tilles, Southern Europe, and India are now preserved in 

 the British Museum. A specimen of this race, in change 

 from the first to the second yearns plumage, obtained (in 

 winter) near Lake Menzaleh, Egypt, is now preserved in the 

 Museum of Vienna. Two specimens of it, obtained, in the 

 Crimea, are now in the Museum of Moscow ; a third skin 

 ( ? juv.) of that race was obtained j^ XL in the Gardens of 

 Tashkent, and a fourth ( (^, ^j I.) in Ferghana (coll. of Mr. 



Severtzov) . 



Respecting the distribution of this bird in European Russia 

 I can state as follows: — Novaja Zemlja; according to Mr. 

 Hoffmann, an adult female and young ones were found near 

 lat. 68° ; by Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown the Pere- 

 grine Falcon was observed at Ust-Zylma, on the banks of the 

 river Zylma, and at Stanovaja-Lachta. It is not uncommon 

 breeding near Archangel, and more rare in Lapland. More 

 to the south it is found in Finland, in the Government of St. 

 Petersburg, Esthonia, and Livonia ; but ' I do not know 

 whether this race breeds in the Government of Tver, and I 

 cannot find anything recorded of it in the Governments of 

 Olonetz and Vologda. More to the east it breeds in the 

 Governments of Wjatka and Perm. 



During the autumn, winter, and spring F. p. griseiventris 

 visits the Governments of Central and Southern Russia, but 

 young are more commonly found than adults. 



