Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 149 



M. Taczanowski in the Bull. Soc. Zool. cle France for 

 1876, p. 126, in a paragraph of which the following is 

 a translation : — " Dybowski, in furnishing an adult male 

 from Akscha, in Dauria, and subsequently several females 

 from Old-Tsuruchaitui, on the Argun, has considerably 

 extended the westward limit of the habitat of this bird/' 

 Col. Prjevalsky includes it among the birds of Mongolia, 

 where, he states, it arrives about the end of March, and 

 breeds, but is less abundant than it is in China"^. M. 

 David states that it arrives on the plains of China and 

 Mongolia in April, and leaves in a south-easterly direction in 

 autumnf; he records meeting Avith specimens near Sin- 

 siang-chien, between lat. 35° and 36°, as late as the 18th of 

 October J; but he did not observe it in Southern China. The 

 readers of ^The Ibis' will remember that the late Mr. Swinhoe 

 found this species nesting near the coast of Northern China, 

 at Talien Bay and Chefoo§, the fledged nestling figured in 

 ' The Ibis' for 18G8, pi. ii., having been taken in the month 

 of July. 



From the observations of Mr. Inglis we learn that in 

 North-eastern Cacliar " these little Falcons appear regularly 

 about the middle of October in hundreds,'^ but mostly dis- 

 appear " about the middle of December." It would seem, 

 however, that they again visit Cachar during their northward 

 vernal migration, as Mr. Inglis obtained an adult male in 

 February and a young male (which appears, by the descrip- 

 tion given of it, to have been a bird about a year old) as late 

 as May ||. 



Further south this species has occurred in Upper Pegu, 

 where Captain Feilden met with four of these birds in January 

 and a fifth early in February^. 



With regard to its occurrence in India, I may mention 



* Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany,' vol. ii. p. 151. 

 t David & Oustalet, ' Oiseaux de la Chine,' p. 35. 

 X David, ' Troisieme Voyage,' vol. i. p. 75. 

 § Ibis, 18G1, p. 258, 18G8, p. 43, and 1874, p. 428. 

 II ' Stray Feathers,' 1877, p. 6, and 1880, p. 243. 

 U Ibid. 1875, p. 22. 



