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coloured subspecies of the Peregrine Falcon. ISIr. Whitehead 

 has now forwarded a fully adult male from Lepanto, in North 

 Luzon, Avhich is perfectly similar in plumage to the male 

 bird (the type of the species) found breeding by Mr. Ernest 

 Hose on Mount Dulit at an elevation of 4500 feet. I have 

 reason to believe that Mr. Whitehead's specimen was obtained 

 at an even greater altitude, but I have unfortunately received 

 no particulars. Like the type, the Luzon example is an old 

 male in the fullest adult plumage, with the chest less brightly 

 coloured than in a second Bornean example obtained by 

 Mr. Prctyman on the Lawas River (see Gurney, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 302). Dr. Sharpe expressed the opinion that this very 

 dark Peregrine would be found to represent a resident form 

 inhabiting the ludo-Malayan Islands ; and no doubt this is 

 the correct view of the case, for we find that an adult male 

 obtained by Mr. Wykeham Perry at Malikollo, New Hebrides, 

 is certainly referable to the present race and not to the allied 

 Fcdco melanogenys from Australia. 



10. Falco severus (Horsf.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 i. p. 397 (1874). 



A fully adult male of the Indian Hobby is now recorded 

 for the first time from Luzon, though the species has been 

 previously obtained in the more southern islands of the 

 group. 



11. Cerchneis tinnunculus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. i. p. 425 (1874). 



This is the first time that the Kestrel has been recorded 

 from the Philippine group. The only specimen sent is an 

 immature male in plumage similar to that of the female, and, 

 as one would expect, it belongs to the darkest eastern form 

 of the Kestrel found in China and Japan, which has been 

 named Tinnunculus japonic us by Temminck and Schlegel [in 

 the 'Fauna Japonica,' p. 2, pis. 1 & 1b (1842)]. 



12. Scops loxgicornis. Grant, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. li 

 (1894) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 504. 



]\Ir. Whitehead has now obtained a second example of this 

 extremely beautiful little Owl, which is easily recognizable by 



