678 MR. A. ANDERSON ON THE [Nov. 21, 



Weight 1 lb. 14| oz. Length 19, wing 14 inches. Legs and feet 

 yellow, with a slight tinge of green. 



"The same morning I shot a female Jug^er Falcon, as I was 

 anxious to compare the two birds in the flesh. The two Falcons cor- 

 respond exactly in linear dimensions ; but tbere is a considerable differ- 

 ence in their weight, the latter being 4 oz. lighter than the former. 



"Camp, Mynpoory Canal, March 16, 1871. — Encamped in a 

 glorious place for Raptores. I had just bagged nine female Sarci- 

 diornis melanotus (with one shot) for the use of my camp-followers, 

 and was meditating whether it would be better to go after a Spotted 

 Eagle which had just carried away a small fish from the edge of the 

 water, or after a female Imperial in the lineated stage, when I ob- 

 served a Falcon skim over the surface of the water like a flash of 

 lightning, and settle on a piece of rising ground, from which emi- 

 nence she might have taken her pick of almost any Duck or Wader 

 in the Indian list. The whole feathered creation for miles round had 

 apparently assembled at this jheel (one of the few containing water 

 so late in the season) preparatory to making a final migration north- 

 wards. This bird, again, proved to be a fine adult female. 



"Weight 2 lb. 3| oz. Cere, gape, and orbital space lemon-yellow, 

 with a tinge of green ; basal half of both mandibles greenish horny, 

 rest pale blue ; irides dark hazel-brown." 



"Futtehgurh, April 13, 1871. — My shikaree brought me an im- 

 mature female this morning, shot on the banks of the Ganges, as he 

 says, in the act of striking a Greenshank (Totanus glottis), which 

 is likely enough, as the migratory Ducks have by this time left this 

 part of the country. 



" This Falcon is in rather an interesting stage, as she has three blue 

 feathers on her back, which are quite conspicuous in the plain brown 

 plumage. 



"Weight 2 lb. 2oz. Length 20 - 4 ; wing 14"3 inches. Legs and 

 feet pale yellowish green ; cere pale green, basal half of both man- 

 dibles pale bluish with a tinge of yellow ; orbital space whitish, 

 yellow at the angle of the eye." 



It is very extraordinary that four out of five of these Peregrines 

 (and I lost a wounded female besides), as also the only examples of 

 F. peregrinator and F. atriceps obtained by me, should be females. 

 I have observed the same preponderance of females over males in 

 almost all the Raptorial birds collected by me ; and when mentioning 

 the circumstance to Mr. Brooks, he informed me that he had 

 noticed the same thing. 



9. Falco peregrinator, Sund. (The Shaheen Falcon.) 



The only specimen of this species obtained was shot late on the 

 evening of the 25th of January last, just as she (sex determined by 

 dissection) had missed her quarry, a Rose-headed Parrakeet (Palce- 

 ornis rosa), and alighted on a lofty peepul tree. 



I was returning to my camp, after a long and fruitless tramp after 

 Raptores ; and as it was close to this very place where, some two and 

 a half months before, a beautiful female specimen of Falco atriceps, 



