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Of Col. Tytler’s female,—a slightly younger bird than mine, 
I think,—I have the following note, made when I examined it. 
“The back wings and scapulars are just like those of a young 
Jugger, but the upper tail coverts, and the tail, have broad, buffy, 
more or less imperfect bars, conspicuous on the tail. The under 
parts, are dirty, buffy white, palest on the chin and throat. The 
feathers of the breast, and abdomen, with imperfect irregular, 
more or less broad, central stripes of dull reddish brown. The 
tarsus is less feathered in front than even in Perigrinator I think, 
to which bird it seems to me to approximate not a little. The head, 
however, is of the Lanner type, and has a narrow, but pretty 
long, and well marked cheek stripe. The head is a rather warm 
red brown; forehead, and centre of head, arusty red brown. There 
are a number of pale rufous white feathers at the back of the 
neck. The white bars on the primaries, are broader than in 
Perigrinator, about the same size as the Peregrine, but not so 
broad, as the Juggers, or a fortiori, those of the Sacer. Accord- 
ing to Mr. Blyth, this bird is the /. Peregrinoides of Hodgson. 
(J. A. S. B. XXIV. 574,) Mr. Blyth also tells us, (Ibis, 1866, 
p- 237,) that “there is a fine specimen, of an adult female, (as 
adjudged) of this rare Falcon, in the Worcester Museum, alleged 
to be from Java, which must needs be a mistake. Its general 
colouring is very pallid, but I would refer the species to the 
Peregrine sub-group, rather than to that of the Sakir, and Lan- 
ner. The specimen in the Worcester Museum, is like an adult 
female Peregrine, only much paler, with all the markings con- 
siderably less developed ; nape, ight cimnamon rufous, marked 
with dusky, the moustachial streak, small, the feathers of the 
upper parts, cross banded, as in adult Peregrines. <A recent 
communication from Dr. Jerdon, proves, that # Babylonicus is 
not uncommon in Kashmere.” It seems possible, that two allied 
species, have been confounded under this name. All the birds 
that I have seen of this species, are so unmistakeably of the 
Lanner type, white or pale foreheads, rufous heads, small cheek 
stripes, and slaty brown or grey plumage, that I cannot under- 
stand Mr. Blyth’s referring this same species, to the Peregrine 
sub-group ; and I doubt the propriety of identifying the Wor- 
cester Museum bird, with Babylonicus. 
The adult female figured by Wolf in the Ibis, has a conspi- 
cuous white frontal barid. The whole top, and back of the 
head, and nape, are of a warm rufous, most of the feathers dark 
shafted, and with dark central streaks, which, onthe nape, occu- 
py nearly the whole surface of the feather, leaving only a nar- 
row rufous margin. ‘he whole back, scapulars, wing coverts, 
and tail, slaty grey, everywhere barred with dark slaty. Many 
