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doubt the stories related of its pushing large animals over cliffs. 

 I found it in considerable numbers frequenting the cliffs on the 

 south face of the Salt range of hills in the Punjab^ not far from 

 Jhelum. 



8. Falco ?eregrinus. 



I must really doubt the probability of this bird breeding in 

 our limits, as considered not unlikely by Mr. Hume. Had it 

 done so near Peshawur, the most likely locality in India, it cer- 

 tainly would not have escaped the observation of such a skilled 

 falconer as Major (now Colonel) Delme-Radcliffe. The icw 

 Peregrines I have had in my possession procured in the Punjab 

 appeared to me to be smaller than the coast-race I was so familiar 

 with in the south of India. 



9. Falco peregrinator. 



This fine Falcon certainly appears to be rare in Northern India. 

 Hodgson has only one drawing of it in his collection of draw- 

 ings at the British Museum ; and another species of Falcon 

 appears to have been mistaken for it both by Mr. Hume and 

 Colonel Delme-Radcliffe. It is, as stated by Schlegel, nearly 

 related to Falco macrojjus, Swainson [melanogenys, Gould), of 

 Australia, which also extends into Malayana. 



Mr. Hume in criticising my origin of the name of the male, 

 Koela or Kohila, as being derived from (not as being a corruption 

 of) the name of the female bird Kohi, must have forgotten the 

 similar origin of the names of other male Falcons, to v('\t,Charghela 

 from Charayh, Dourela from Douri. 



9 his. Falco atriceps, Hume. 



I am glad to find that Mr. Gurney has allowed this to be a 

 distinct species. I distinguished it at once, as Mr. Hume 

 points out, from F. peregrinatoi', though I had then seen only 

 one specimen. Mr. Hume has recently, I believe, procured 

 many specimens, as has also Mr. Brooks; its eggs, too, have 

 been obtained near Dhurmsala. It appears to be not rai-e 

 in the Himalayas; and I have very little doubt that it was 

 this Falcon which 1 saw near Kotegur in 1865, and of which 

 Mr. Berkeley had a speciip.en, which, with others procured sub- 



