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14. L. couLACi: Psittacula coulaci, Lesson (Edwards, B. pi. 6). 

 Syn. Vide Gray, Brit. Mus. Cat. Psittacidse (1859), p. 55 



= Z/. indicus*. 

 Hab. Ceylon. 



Order RAPTORES. 



Tribe I. Diurn.1:. 



Earn. FALCONIDiE. 



Subfam. Falconing. 



Genus Falco, L. 

 {a. Jer- or Arctic Falcons : Hierofalco, Kaup.) 

 Remark. — The Shanger of Eastern works on Falconry, stated to 

 be " very rarely met with in India — not more than one or two 

 in a century, and then generally in the Punjab," is a Jer-falcon 

 of some species, probably F. candicans, Gmelin, and was doubt- 

 less brought to India from Northern Asiaf. 



{b. ClifF Falcons.) 



15. F. CALiDUs, Latham {vide J. A. S. xxviii. p. 281). 

 Syn. F. pe)-egrinus of India, auctorum. 



Hab. India generally (and Ceylon ?), as a winter visitant only, 

 retiring beyond the Himalaya to breed, and resorting in the 

 cold season much to watery situations, where it preys chiefly on 

 the Anatida. I have seen no example from the eastern side of 

 the Bay of Bengal. F. peregrinus {verus) should be looked for 



* I reject the name indicus, because the race does not inhabit India, 

 so far as known; although so common in Ceylon, where it replaces L. 

 vernalis. 



t In a Kabul letter, published in the ' Lahore Chronicle,' we read that, 

 on December 13th, 1858, " a letter was read from Sirdar Mahommed Ufzul 

 Khan, from Balkh, stating that the ruler of Kokhan had sent his son with 

 a present of 90 horses, 90 camels, 9 white Hawks, 40 slave girls and boys, 

 and 18,000 tilles, to the king of Bokhara, who had accepted them, and was 

 greatly pleased." 



A subsequent letter in the same newspaper states that, on the 9th January, 

 1859, "the Amir received two Churkhs [Falco sacer?] from Balkh, which 

 were sent off to Peshawur, for Major Lumsden." 



These extracts serve to show how the Falcons of Middle Asia are still 

 conveved about. 



