5 00 NOTES. 



broad, more or less, concealed silky white supercilium, begin- 

 ning over the middle of the lores, and reaching a little further 

 back than the middle of the eye. In many specimens no trace 

 of this is to be discovered until the feathers of the forehead and 

 anterior part of the crown are lifted. 



The doubts entertained as to which of our two Shaheens, 

 F. periginator, apud Jerdon, and atriceps, nobis, was the realp^'e- 

 grinator, and again as to the distinctness of the northern and 

 southern forms, have made me for long anxious to obtain 

 Sundevall's original description. 



To my kind friend, Mr. J. H. Gurney, I am indebted for 

 the following 1 extract from Vol. XVIII, An. Nat. Hist., for 1846, 

 p. 102, which I republish, as it will doubtless possess the same 

 interest to many of my Indian readers that it does to me. 

 The description is extracted from an article of Strickland's 

 entitled — 



" The Birds of Calcutta collected and described by Carl. J. 

 Sundevall," 



11 The following memoir is contained in a small but valuable 

 collection of scientific papers published at Lund in Sweden, 

 under the title of" Physiographiska Sallskapets Tidskrift." One 

 volume only has appeared in 8vo., dated 1837 and 1838, and, 

 like the greater part of the scientific literature of Scandinavia, 

 is almost wholly unknown in this country. As Professor Sun- 

 devairs memoir on the Birds of Calcutta was likely to interest 

 Anglo-Indian naturalists, I have long wished to get it trans- 

 lated; but, as there is no Swedish and English Dictionary or 

 Grammar to be procured in London, I was unable, either to 

 make the translation myself, or to obtain one from others. 

 By the kindness, however, of M. Bertram, a distinguished Ger- 

 man and Scandinavian scholar residing in Oxford, I am 

 now enabled to present a translation of this interesting memoir." 



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59. Falco peregrinator, sp. nov. (obs. non ad Calcutta 

 visns) 



Niger: subtus ferrugineus, antice pallidior pectore longi- 

 tudinaliter nigro-maculato, abdomine, crisso, tibisque irregulari- 

 ter nigro fasciatis ; cauda alas superante. (Maxime affinis 

 F. peregrino) 



$ (in mari indieo d 19 Junii) superne tota, cum alis, lateribus 

 capitis usque infra oculos et macula genarum, latiori quam in 

 F. peregrino, pure nigra, absque marginibus pallidis plumarum. 

 Bupercilia nulla distincte colorato. Gula et collum antice 



