Ml'. R. B. Sharpe'n Catalogue of Accipitrcs. 293 



JuUunder district of the Punjab, was preseutcd by Dr. 

 Sclater to the Norwich Museum, which I found, on compa- 

 rison, agreed closely with the type specimen lent to me by 

 Mr. Hume; the very slight differences that exist between 

 them (and which are detailed in ' Stray Feathers,^ vol. viii. 

 p. 42-1) are apparently due to the Norwich specimen being 

 more entirely adult than the type. This Punjab specimen is 

 represented in the accompanying figure (Plate X.), which 

 may therefore be regarded as being an authentic represen- 

 tation of a typical F. atriceps, and, so far as I know, the 

 only one hitherto published. 



Passing on to the most widely diffused species of the genus 

 Falco, I may observe that the Peregrine Falcon appears to 

 have been designated by Gmeliu under two specific names, 

 "communis" and " peregrinus." Mr. Sharpe adopts the 

 former in his Catalogue, but has subsequently {vide Ibis, 

 1879, p. 237) rightly reverted to the latter, which has pre- 

 cedence, having been used by Tunstall prior to the publication 

 of Gmelin^s book, as shown in the list of synonyms of this 

 species given in Dresser's 'Birds of Europe,' vol. vi. p. 31. 



Mr. Sharpe, although giving some valuable information as 

 to the geographical distribution of F. peregrinus and its near 

 allies, does not supply a summary of the countries in which 

 the former has been met with; most of these will be found 

 particularized in the articles upon tliis species in Newton's 

 ' Yarrell ' (vol. i. pp. 53-64) and in Dresser's ' Birds of Europe ' 

 (vol. vi. 31-42)*; but I may here mention a few additional 

 localities. A very darlc young bird of tliis species from San 

 Domingo was living, in 187G, in the Gardens of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, and it has also been recorded by Mr. Lawrence 

 from the islands of Barbuda and Antigua f ; it is included 

 by Leotaud amongst the birds of Trinidad J, and by Messrs. 

 A. and E. Newton in their recently published list of the birds 



* Mr. Dresser gives a list, with localities, of a considerable series of 

 PeregTiue Falcons preserved in the Norwich Museum, to which some 

 interestmg additions have subsequently been made. 



t Proc. of U.S. Nat. Mus. 1879, p. 487. 



\ Ois. de Trinidad, pp. 22-24. 



