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DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. 



the nape, and the space below the eyes are nearly black ; the back, wing-coverts, 

 and tail some shade of bluish grey, with darker bars ; the primary quills brownish 

 black, with the inner webs barred and spotted with reddish white ; the throat is 

 nearly white, and the breast reddish white, with short dark brown transverse bars ; 

 the remainder of the under-parts, as well as the lower surface of the tail, being 

 marked with more continuous bars of brown and grey. The beak is blue, tending 



PEREGRINE FALCON {\ liat. size). 



to black at the tip ; and the cere, legs, and toes are yellow. Such is the general 

 coloration of the typical northern peregrine, which ranges over all Europe, 

 except Iceland and Spitzbergen ; while eastwards it extends across Siberia to 

 China and Japan, and thence to the Malay Islands. It also occurs in North- 

 Eastern Africa, as far as Kordofan, and occasionally straggles as far as the 

 Cape, where, however, its place is normally occupied by the very distinct lesser 

 peregrine {¥. minor). Entering India on the extreme north-west, it is replaced 

 in the peninsula by the shahin falcon (F. peregrinator). In Java we meet another 



