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each feather with the shaft black, the central portion more or less blackish 

 and with numerous broken indistinct bar -like spots on both webs; quills 

 dark brown, the inner webs barred with white ; tail dark ashy, closely but 

 indistinctly barred with blackish, the tip white ; chin, throat and upper 

 breast white, the latter with a few black shaft-streaks ; lower breast, centre 

 of the abdomen, vent, thighs and under tail-coverts white washed with 

 rufous and with heart- or arrowhead-shaped spots ; sides of the body 

 barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with broken 

 bars of black. 



The young are brown above, each feather edged with rufous ; the bars 

 on the inner webs of the quills rufous, not white ; the tail ashy brown, 

 tipped with rufous white, the central feathers with some rufous spots, the 

 laterals with rufous bars on the inner webs ; cheeks and broad moustachial 

 stripe black, as in the adult ; chin, throat and a patch behind the mous- 

 tache white, with a few tine shaft-marks ; an indistinct white collar round 

 the hind neck; lower plumage pale rufous- white, densely streaked with 

 ruddy brown ; under wing-coverts rufous-brown, the feathers margined 

 paler. 



Iris dark brown ; cere and gape bright yellow ; eyelids pale yellow ; 

 base of bill plumbeous, tip dark horn-colour ; legs bright yellow ; claws 

 black. 



Length about 16 inches, tail 6'5, wing 12*5, tarsus 1'9, bill from 

 gape 1-2. The female is much larger : length about 17 inches, tail 7' 5, 

 wing 14*5, tarsus 2'2, bill from gape 1*3. 



The Peregrine is found over the whole of Burmah, but is nowhere 

 common. I have, however, procured it pretty often in Pegu at Prome, 

 Shwaygheen and Kyeikpadein ; and Mr. Davison noticed it in Tenasserim 

 at Thatone and Amherst. 



The range of the Peregrine is very extensive, and it is found in nearly 

 every portion of the world. 



It appears to be a constant resident in Burmah ; for I have procured it 

 in February, May and November ; but I have not, however, observed any 

 indications of its breeding in this country. It makes its nest in trees, on 

 the faces of cliffs and occasionally on the ground, laying two to four 

 eggs, which are richly marked with various shades of bright rufous. 



The specimens of the Peregrine that I have myself shot in Pegu were 

 found in tracts of paddy-land near forests. 



