ON FALCO BABYLONICUS AND FALCO BARBARUS. 4S5 
in a different handwriting from the rest of the ticket, and with 
a different ink, red instead of black.* 
The following are measurements which I have taken from 
specimens of i babylonicus which were marked as females 
either by the collector or the taxidermist employed ; except 
where otherwise described, the birds are all adult, and all 
preserved in the British Museum :— 
Middle, 
Wing. Tail. Tarsus. t0e, s. U. 
in. in. in. in. 
Purchased at Kashan by Dr. Scully 
(immature) «Sp. Imp. 1-70 1:90 
Kandahar, collected by “Sir O. St. 
John (immattre in change) Imp. 6°75 2°00 2°08 
Kashgar, collected by Dr, Scully (im- 
mature, wings slightly imperfect)... 11°80 6°10 1-90 1:95 
Himalayas, collected by Dr. Jerdon, 
in possession of Canon Tristram 
(immature) an le 20 565 185 1:90 
Punjab, collected by Dr. Jerdon, in 
possession of Major Wardlaw Ram- 
say (immature) Ps eet B230 ¥) esses.” 9. seuceepay one 
Kast Narra, Sind, collected by Mr, 
Doig (immature i in change) 12°35 6°56 1:90 2°10 
Kandahar, collected by Sir O. St. 
John (immature in change) 12°40 6°55 1:90 2:00 
Peshawar, collected by Mr. Hume 
(immature i inchange) . 12°45 6°80 2:00 2 05 
Dado, Sind, collected by Mr. Doig (im- 
mature in change) 12°50 6 65 1°85 210 
Babylonia, collected by ‘Commander 
Jones (immature in change) 1270 665 200 2°05 
India, collected by Col Delme Rad- 
cliffe, i in possession of Lord Lilford 12°70 6°50 2°00 2:10 
Samarcand, presented to Brit. Mus, 
by Mr. Seebohm de «ed - 12-70 6°30 2:10 1:90 
Etawah District, collected by Mr. 
Brooks’ cs: 12°70 6:50 1:90 2°00 
Eastern Narra, Sind, collected by Mr. 
Doig 12°90 6°65 1:80 2°10 
Allygurh, N. W. India, “collected by 
Mr. Brooks 13°00 6:50 190 1:96 
Umballa, India, collected by Dr. 
Scott, in possession of ee Ward- 
law Ramsay vase LOFLO Janene 2-00 2-05 
Yarkand, collected by Dr. "Scully ww. 13:15 6°80 2°15 2°00 
Tempeer, Lower Sind, collected by 
Mr. Hume... 13:15 6°90 2°00 2°10 
Attock, India, collected by Mr. Hume 
(immature) 13 15 7:30 1:90 2:10 
Hyderabad, Sind, collected by Col. 
Butler (immature in change) éav- AD20),, «Gi S0y eeu aso 
The following are measurements which I have taken from 
presumed females of F. babylonicus, the sex of which has not 
* Blewitt habitually thus added in the sex in red ink, with his own hand, after 
the bird had been skinned and he had himself dissected the body.—aA. O. H, 
