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Hodgson’s undescribed species; possibly his & Mierwrus, the 
Javali Kooee.” 
Although I have not been able to examine the specimens, I 
have little doubt, that the two birds referred to by Dr. Jerdon, 
(Vol. I. p. 26) as probably hybrids between the Peregrine and 
the Shaheen, belong to this species. 
Mr. Blyth remarks in the Ibis, “ Mr. J. H.. Gurney has called 
our attention to the fact that an adult female, attributed to this , 
species, in the British Museum, believed to be from Nepaul, and 
an adult male in the Norwich Museum from Northern India, 
have a much lighter colouring on the under parts, than has 
hitherto been figured or described as being the case in / Peri- 
grinator. If it be not that this peculiarity is due to old age, 
Mr. Gurney supposes the two specimens, just mentioned, may 
belong to an undescribed species.” I cannot help thinking 
that these birds also may belong to our new Africeps. Again, 
My. Blyth says, that, 2. Sultaneus, Hodgson, is undoubtedly the 
true EF. Perigrinator, “though a figure in one of his drawings 
represents, I suspect, a stray individual of the Australian / 
Melanogenys ; and such also may be Dr. Jerdon’s supposed hy- 
brid falcons.”” I cannot doubt that Mr. Hodgson’s figure, thus 
referred to, represents /. Atriceps, since this latter, though to my 
notion unmistakably distinct, has a great general resemblance 
to the Australian species.* 
Mr. R. Thompson says, ‘I must say that I agree with Mr. 
Hume, in thinking that we have another species; which he 
names, in his catalogue, / Atriceps. J remember shooting an 
adult male with a perfectly black head, the cheek stripe represen- 
ted by a deep, dark, band, confluent with the ear coverts. By 
way of illustrating this, I would recommend comparison with an 
adult Lanius Nigriceps. I think the latter fully gives an idea 
of the Falcon I killed, as regards the plumage of the bird’s 
neck and head. In the south of the Mirzapoor district, one 
swept close past me the other day, which I recognized as 
identical with the black headed Perigrinator, which I shot a 
few years ago.” 
This species if, as I conceive, really distinct, is common in the 
Hfimalayahs, more so, I believe, than any other of the genus 
Fulco, as restricted in Dr. Jerdon’s work, and it is this species 
I think, to which my friend Mr. Thompson refers, when he 
* T have, however, only a single Australian specimen, which is not, I think, 
adult, so that a further comparison may require me to modify my views, 
but if Atriceps and Melanogenys should (which seems in the highest degree 
improbable) prove to be identical, then the latter is no straggler to, but a com- 
mon resident in, the Himalayahs. 
