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shells of a somewhat finer and closer texture than those of these 

 latter. The ground-colour in both was a rich brick-red, here and 

 there faintly blotched and spotted with a darker shade, and with a 

 few bold blotches and splashes, specks and spots of the deepest 

 liver-colour ; strange to say, there were one or two pure white 

 spots on the ground-colour, and a white spot or blotch in the 

 middle of almost every one of the larger liver-coloured blotches. 

 In my whole series of the eggs of F. jwjyer, I have none at all like 

 these, although the eggs of both species are emphatically of the 

 true Falcon type. The eggs appear to me fully as big as the 

 average run of eggs of Peregrines. 



They measure 2*1 inches in length, by 1-66 and 1-68 inch in 

 breadth. 



Three more eggs of this species, obtained, the one on the 6th 

 February from a nest in a precipice near Belt in Kooloo, and the 

 two others on the 3rd of the same month from a similarly situated 

 nest near Nitta, also in Kooloo, differed from the eggs already 

 described, as the eggs of all Falcons will differ inter se. The single 

 egg had a dingy brownish-yellow ground, speckled, smeared, and 

 freckled over large portions of its surface with dingy, burnt- 

 umber markings ; a dirty washed-out-looking egg, such as is not 

 uncommon amongst Neophrons, but is less seldom seen in Falcons. 

 The other two were richly coloured : the one had a bright, brick- 

 dust-red ground, moderately thinly streaked, mottled, and blotched 

 with blood- red everywhere except at the large end ; the other had 

 a dull pink ground, thinly speckled, spotted, and blotched all over 

 with dark reddish brown ; just towards the small end the blotches 

 are very thick and numerous, forming a small moltled cap. 



These eggs measured, respectively, 1*98 by 1*63 inch, 1'95 by 

 1-60 inch, arid ]-94 by 1-62 inch. 



Colonel Radcliffe says that " both this species and F. Ixibylonicus 

 breed in the rocks in the hills surrounding our hut encampment, 

 near Kalabagh, chiefly towards the north and west. Many, I am 

 told, breed in and about the Khyber Pass and the mountains of 

 Afghanistan. Certain breeding-places are well known to the 

 Native Chiefs, from which they obtain the young hawks for 

 training every year." 



Falco jugger, J. E. Gray. The Luygar Falcon. 



Falco jugger, Gray, Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 30 ; Hume, Hough Draft N. 

 #Jno. 11. 



The Luggar Falcon lays during January, February, and March, 

 but the majority appear to lay in the early part of February. I 

 have never obtained an egg earlier than the 6th of January, or 

 later than the 30th March. The situation of the nest varies ; it 

 is sometimes on large trees, the peepul being perhaps the favourite 

 in the Duab, and sometimes on ledges or in recesses of rocky or 

 earthen cliffs, and sometimes in the face of ancient ramparts where 



