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eoloured brown, contrasting strongly with the black of the 
throat and neck, a few of the breast feathers tinged with a 
darker brown, and broadly tipped with fulvous white ; ; several 
of the flank feathers, and upper thigh coverts, broadly tipped 
with pure white. The whole wing lining, a uniform, somewhat 
dark brown. 
No. 8. Falco Peregrinus, Get. 
Tue PEREGRINE 
Of the breeding of this bird in India, little is known. “ Mr. 
Layard,” I quote Dr. Jerdon, “mentions the Peregrine as 
breeding in Ceylon in January, and Dr. Adams says, that he 
found the nest on a tree on the banks of the Indus, below 
Ferozpoor, but L[imagine,” continues Dr. Jerdon, “ that in both 
cases an old Laggar (fF. Jugger) has been mistaken for the 
Bhyvi.” As to Ceylon, I can offer no opinion, although it is 
difficult to mistake a Peregrine for a Laggar at any stage, but as 
regards the Indus, I think Dr. Adams was very likely correct. 
When marching between Ferozpoor and Mooltan, I saw a 
trained Peregrine, which the owner assured me, had been taken 
from a nest on the banks of the Indus near Leia; and I have 
been informed by an officer well acquainted with our bird, that 
it breeds on the banks of the Cabool and Swat rivers, close to 
the Peshawur valley. I have also a nestling bird just able to 
fly, shot by a native shikaree somewhere in the interior of the 
Himalayahs, not far from Kotegurh ; proving that the bird does 
breed in the Hills. Further observations are necessary. I 
should say that our birds laid in May, or not earlier than the 
later part of April, because of a fine pair that I shot early in 
April at the Sambhur lake; (where there were several,) neither 
ovaries, nor testicles were at all developed ; and the native sports- 
men of the place assured me, that they rarely left the lake before 
the middle of April. The migratory ducks leave earlier, all 
had left when I was there, but Gulls, Terns and Flamingoes were 
there i myriads, and these and the Peregrines all leave, I 
was assured, together; and my informants, though wholly unedu- 
cated were wood observers, as they pointed out, even on the 
wing, the difference between Xenia Bruneicephala and Rida- 
bunda ; both of which, with Chrotcocephalus Ichthyetus, were very 
plentiful about the lake. 
In Europe, they build on rocks and cliffs ; by preference 
along the sea coast. ‘They form a large nest of sticks, and lay, 
