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Yarrel says, four eggs, averaging about two inches in length, by 
1:67 in breadth ; mottled all over with pale reddish brown. 
Those that I have seen, varied nearly as much in depth, and 
intensity of colouring, as do those of Huleo Jugger. 
Although I have reasons, as above explained, for believing 
that some of our birds do breed in the far North-West, and in 
the Himalayahs, I yet do not doubt that the majority of them 
go further north. The Peregrine is rather a northern bird, not 
rare, for instance right up to the north cape, as Old Bushman 
informs us; and I should guess that many of our birds breed in 
the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea. 
Captain C. H. T. Marshall says, “Do you know that the Bhyri, 
about the time of its migration, always sleeps facing the north ? 
It sits in that direction even during the day time, if possible ; 
but at night, it invariably keeps its head pointing northwards.” 
I cannot say that I place much faith in this native story com- 
municated by my friend Captain C. Marshall, but I am bound 
to confess, that the two Peregrines that I shot at Sambhur, in 
_ the dusk of the evening, on the trees where they always roosted, 
certainly were sitting facing the north, although what little 
wind was blowing came from the south-west. 
I have (both in Col. Tytler’s museum and elsewhere,) had. 
opportunities of comparing a number of Huropean and Indian 
specimens, and must add my feeble testimony to Mr. Blyth’s 
dictum, that they are clearly, all referrible, to one, and the same 
species. I would say more. I cannot agree with Mr. Blyth, 
that the adults are always distinguishable at a glance. I have 
before me two adult males, one shot in England, the other near 
Umballa, which are undistinguishable. I do no¢ find, after com- 
paring a large series, either that the Huropean bird has always 
more rufous on the lower parts than the Indian, or that the 
cross bars are always much larger and stronger, or that the 
breast is more conspicuously spotted : all these points vary in both 
races, the two latter solely, as I believe, according to age. But 
the fact I suspect is, that m Europe, Peregrines are rarely 
allowed to live to any great age, being there continually shot 
at, and in many places I might almost say, hunted down; 
while in Asia, except by a few “ misguided Kuropeans,” Pere- 
erines are never shot; and though numbers are caught for hawk- 
ing purposes, they are commonly turned loose again after one, or 
more years; and thus, while the large majority of Huropean 
specimens exhibit more or less traces of nonage, a fair propor- 
tion of our Indian specimens are of really o/d birds, in which 
the whole chin, throat, and upper breast, are spotless white ; the 
spots on the thigh coverts reduced to mere triangular dots ; the 
