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do not remember noticing in young birds in Abyssinia, the 

 only place where I have seen them in this etirly stage. In 

 the Bolan pass Laramergeyers are particularly numerous. 

 The wing of one I found lying dead measured 30^ inches. 



6. Falco peregrinus, Tunst. 



Rare. I have only procured one specimen, a male, nearly 

 pure white below. It was shot by my collector in a rocky 

 pass near Quetta where I had seen it some days before, 

 hunting chicken Partridges. 



7. Falco jugger, Gray. 



Not very uncommon. Dr. Duke obtained it at Nal, and 

 I have twice shot it in the Residency Garden at Quetta. 



8. Falco babylonicus (sive barbaj'us?). 



One or other of these species is the commonest Falcon of 

 our province. Dr. Duke sent a specimen, shot near Kelat, 

 unsexed, to Mr. Hume, which the latter noted as F. baby- 

 lonicus. Of three females which I obtained in Kandahar, 

 two he considered to be F. barbarus and one F. babylonicus. 

 Last year I procured two males in the Residency Garden at 

 Quetta, which, though rather large for F. barbarus, were 

 smaller than any F. babylonicus of which I could find record. 

 In April last I showed them to Mr. Hvime, who told me that 

 he now doubted whether true F. barbarus had ever been 

 found in India at all, and that Mr. Gurney agreed with him 

 that F. babylonicus was only the eastern form of the smaller 

 F. barbarus of Europe and North Africa. The Kandahar 

 specimens are in the Hume collection, and I recently sent 

 one from Quetta to the British Museum^. 



9. Falco ^salon, Tunst. 



Common. One of the fa'st birds I shot in Pishin in 1878. 

 Both Col. Swinhoe and I obtained specimens in Kandahar. 



10. TlNNUNCULUS ALAUDARIUS (Gm.). 



The Kestrel is naturally common, but most if not all leave 

 both Kandahar and Quetta in the hot weather. Mr. Barnes 

 found it breeding in the Khwaja Araran range. I believe 

 that I have also seen the Lesser Kestrel, Erythropus naumanni, 



* [See Col. Butler's letter on this subject, above, p. 13.5. — Ed.] 



