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upper breast chestnut, spotted with dark brown; lower breast, 
abdomen and lower tail coverts rufous white, or very light 
rufous, barred with brown. Tibial feathers light chestnut 
underneath, above darker and closely barred.” This speci- 
men, though not of quite so old a bird as I have sent to Paris, 
and with less b/we therefore in the mantle, is a very charac- 
teristic one, the whole side of the head for nearly an inch 
below the eye, embracing what in Perigrinator would be the 
cheek or moustachial stripe, the cheeks, ear coverts, and sides 
of the base of the skull, uniform unbroken black, confluent with, 
and only slightly darker than the lores, top and back of the 
head and nape. 
No. 10. Falco Sacer, Scuucet. 
Tur SaKER. 
I have as yet been able to learn nothing certain of the breed- 
ing of this noble bird within our limits. I have been assured by 
natives who know it well and train it for hawking, that it 
breeds in Cabool, the Huzara country, and Cashmere, but 
none of the many sportsmen whom I have enquired from, and 
who have spent one or more summers in Cashmere, appear to 
have noticed it there. The Ameer of Cabool when recently 
(March, 1869) on his visit to the Governor-General, brought 
with him some well trained specimens of this species and men- 
tioned, that they bred in Afghanistan, and that he was himself 
acquainted with several eyries. It is this bird I believe, which 
is the / Biarmicus of Vigne’s list noticed (I quote Mr. Blyth) 
as being “common in the plains under the Alpine Punjaub.” 
It has been repeatedly shot, as low down as Umballa and even 
Dehli; while west of the Sutledge and towards the Peshawur 
valley, it almost replaces Jugger, being at any rate more com- 
mon there than the latter species. Babylonicus which aiso occurs 
there, is far rarer, while on the other hand, this latter is more 
common about, and north of Umritsur. 
Of the breeding of the Sacer elsewhere, Mr. W. H. Simpson 
has given an interesting acconnt in the Ibis for 1869. 
* On the evening of the 29th, another fortunate discovery was 
made by the same party, and this time of the nest of a bird 
(f. Sacer) whose eggs it was believed were almost unknown 
previously in authentic cabinets. We were strolling on a low 
flat island in the Danube, the edge of which is well covered 
witu tall Poplars and other trees. A nest of Milvus After had 
