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Dr. Bree tells us, remarks that there was, when he wrote, a living 
specimen from Turkey in the gardens of the Zoological Society, 
(London) differing from any other specimen he had seen, its 
plumage being cross-barred like that of a female merlin. Mr. 
Gurney later found a similar specimen in the collection of the 
East India Company, with distinct brown transverse markings 
all across the back, shoulders and wing coverts, and he con- 
sidered that these were indications of maturity, the bird in the 
Zoological Society having exhibited few if any of them when 
first sent there. I have seen both barred and unbarred birds 
from the North West, and I cannot help believing that there are 
at least two distinct species now included, under the specific name 
Sacer, one of which may prove to be the real F. Cherrug, but at 
present I have not sufficient specimens to work out the question ; 
and, even if I had, am not in a position to decide whether the 
bird originally designated Cherrug was an example of I. Sacer, 
(verus) or of the nearly allied species, which I have reason to . 
believe exists. 
I give a description and measurements of two young birds, a 
male and a female shot in Hurriana, but whether these are true 
Sakers, or whether they belong to the supposed allied species, I 
am unable to determine. 
The feet were grayish green, and the cere leaden green, but 
in the female, which was I think rather the older bird, there 
was a yellowish tinge on the feet. In both, the head was 
yellowish white, (tinged in the female on the cap with rufous) 
each feather with a dark central brown stripe, broadest in the 
female. The general hue of the upper parts in the male was 
much the same as that of the young / Jugger, but slightly 
more rufous. The tail feathers had large round or oval white 
spots on each web, roundest on the central feathers, and more 
and more oval on the laterals as they receded from these. The 
feathers of the lower back, rump and upper tail coverts were 
broadly margined with yedlowish white, the tertials, later second- 
aries and upper wing coverts with rufous white. ‘The scapulars 
and tertials, had scarcely a trace of the rufous white spots or 
blotches so conspicuous in the female, the upper wing coverts 
no trace. Beneath (in the male) the brown of the lower 
breast, abdomen, sides and thigh coverts and of the lower 
wing coverts was pale, dull and small in extent as compared 
with that of the same parts of the female. This latter was of a 
deeper brown, and had a more rufous tinge everywhere, especial- 
ly on the upper surface, where all the feathers, except the longest 
upper tail coverts were edged with rufous, and the larger 
scapulars, tertiaries, and later secondaries, as well as many of 
