296 Mr. J. H. Gurncy's Notes on 



Pinwcll to the liritish Museum, anotlier ludiau female in tlic 

 eolleetiou of tlie late Lord Twecddale, and a male from Ceylou 

 in the Norwich Museum, in all of which this feature is espe- 

 cially conspicuous"^. 



1 agree with Mr. Sliarpe in considering that the ordinary 

 Peregrine of America is not distinct from that of Europe and 

 Asia. Mr. Ridgway, in discussing this question, writes 

 thus : — " Slight as are the characters which separate the Pere- 

 grines of the New and Old World, i. e. the immaculate 

 jugulum of the former and the streaked one of the latter, 

 they are yet sufficiently constant to warrant their separation 

 as geographical races of one species ^'f- But, in point of fact , 

 neither of these characters is constant : Mr. Ridgway him- 

 self mentions exceptions to the tirst ; and Avitli regard to the 

 second, instances of the immaculate jugulum exist among the 

 Peiegrines of the Old World, though in Europe they are not 

 so frequent as amongst those of North America, including 

 Greenland. 



The Norwich Museum possesses adult specimens, with the 

 jugulum exhibiting dark shaft-marks quite as conspicuous as 

 ill ordinary European examples, from the Saskatchewan river, 

 from Fort Churchill, from the State of New York, and from 

 Yucatan; whilst, on the other hand, the same collection eon- 

 tains an adult French and a nearly adult English specimen 

 in which the jugulum is almost immaculate, merely bearing 

 a single row of about eight very slight and inconspicuous 

 shaft-marks at the bottom of the crop, and also the adult 

 Ceylon male, to which I have already referred, and in which 

 the jugulum is absolutely immaculate, as is also the ease in 

 an adult Chinese male from Chefoo, which is now before me, 

 and for the loan of which I am indebted to the kindness of 

 Mr. SeebohmJ. 



* Conf. Mr. Hume's remarks quoted in a subsequent footnote. 



t ' Land-Birds of North America,' vol. iii. p. 13o. 



X Mr. Hume writes that a "fair proportion " of Indian IVivgriues liave 

 '' the whole chin, throat, and upper breast spotle.ss white ; the spots on the 

 thio'li-co\erts reduced to mere triangular dots, the abdomen with only a 

 few scattered dots here and there, the !:*ides, axillaries, and under wing- 



