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advancing to it, and strikinor ifc with the butt of my gun, it fell 

 down, gave a few convulsive twitches as if in its death throes, 

 and then remained perfectly still. This time I thought there 

 could be no doubt that the bird was really dead, so I left it and 

 ■walked away to another part of the garden. In a few minutes 

 my servant called out to me that the Vulture had run off. It 

 had indeed got away very cleverly, and it made such good use 

 of its legs that I had some difficulty in overtaking it and o-ivino- 

 it a finishing shot. ° ° 



On the 18th November, while walking through the Pashpati 

 wood, I was startled by hearing a loud and' prolonged hoarse 

 roar. On going on a little further the sound was found to pro- 

 ceed from a pair of P. bengalensis consummating their nuptials 

 on a large horizontal branch of a tree, some thirty feet above 

 the ground. The cry was very remarkable, and more like what 

 some large carnivorous mammal might be expected to utter 

 than any bird. 



7.— Gypaetus barbatus, Lin. 



The Bearded Vulture was only observed on one occasion, in- 

 winter, sailing over the hills which bound the valley of Nepal 

 to the north. 



8.— Falco peregrinus, Gm. 



Female.— Lmgih, 19-3 ; expanse, 44-75 ; wing, 13-8 ; tail, S'2 ; 

 tarsus, 2-2 ; bill from gape, 1-35 ; bill from anterior margin of 

 cere, straight, I'O ; length of cere, 0-35 ; mid toe, 2-3 ; its claw, 

 straight, 0-9 ; closed wings short of tail, 1*3; weight, 2Ibs. 

 0-5 oz. ; depth of closed bill at cere, 07 ; hind clawf straio-ht' 

 0*97. 7 o i 



Bill blue horny, paler at base ; cere and orbits licrht yellow ; 

 irides dark brown ; feet bright lemon yellow \ cTaws bluish 

 black. 



An adult bird, above bluish grey, barred with blackish ; the 

 bead blackish slaty ; a broad black cheek stripe not confluent 

 with the cap ; chin, throat, and upper breast unspotted white ; 

 the feathers of the lower breast with faint dark central streaks ; 

 rest of lower surface with black cross bars, the belly beino- over- 

 laid with a pale salmon tint. ° 



I shot the specimen above noted in the valley of Nepal on 

 the 18th November. Only a few pairs of the Peregrine were 

 noticed in the valley in winter, about the skirts of woods and 

 near the ponds and small streams frequented by Water-fowL 

 The bird was also observed in the Tarai in December. 



