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as I suppose one cannot distinguish safely without examination) this winter ; 

 they are always about water and prey, I suppf se on the waders and ducks. In 

 this part of the country they seem particularly common. Those that 1 have 

 seen close have no rufons on the underparts, and I am sure are all F.ptire- 

 grinus." I generally see a few every cold weather. The earliest was noticed on 

 the 13th September and the latest on the 6th April. Native riame BJiyri. 

 (184) F. PEREGRINATOE. — The Shabin Falcon. 

 Blanford, No. 1255. Hume, No. 9. 



I got a female of this species on t'oe 3rd August 1896 at Ariarh. It was seated 

 on a tree close to the bungalow. I have also noticed one or two other falcons 

 which were probably this specie". 



(185) F. JUGGEE. — The laggar Falcon. 

 5ZaM/brd, No. 1257. Hume, 'So. W. ^ 



I have found all falcons rather scarce here, but Scroope says he has found 

 this species common. He was very successful in obtaining their eggs and sent 

 me a couple of clutches taken in February. I got three highly incubated eggs 

 from a nest on the 10th March, some miles from Baghownie, and also two 

 young a couple of miles from Jainagar, on the 18th April 1898. The young 

 on being taken down began to croak something like a frog. The nestlings 

 were brown all over with pale rufous margins to the feathers. Bill pale bluish 

 horny, dusky at tip ; legs tinged greenish. Description of plumage on 20th 

 November 1898. Forehead, supercilium, earcoverts and chin whitish, shafts 

 of feathers on forehead black and tips of ear coverts deep brown ; a deep brown 

 band from behind eye, below supercilium and above earcoverts and also a paler 

 one from gape to below ear coverts. Upper plumage deep brown tinged with 

 ashy and feathers edged with rufous, the rufous being more pronornced on 

 the head ; feathers of lower neck more or less pale fulvous with dark tips ; a 

 few pure white feathers on the breast, vent and thigh coverts, remainder of 

 lower plumage deep brown with fulvous edges, lower tail coverts pale fulvous 

 with a few crescentic brown bars along the shaft ; tail featVers deep brown 

 tinged with ashy above, beneath the inner webs are barred with pale rnfons. 

 Quills brown tinged with ashy, inner web of primaries, except near the tip, with 

 bufE bars. On the 7th September 1899 the upper plumage was that of the 

 adult, and there was far more white than brown in the lower plumage. 



I saw one strike a drongo and eat it on the ground. Native name Laggar and 



Jugger. 



(186) F. SEVERUS. — The Indian Hobby. 

 Blanford, No. 1261 . Hume, No. 14. 

 I saw one at Narhar on the 3rd February 1900. It was evidently taking 

 some sort of locust or grasshopper from off the ground. 



(187) -i^sALON CHiCQUERA. — The Bed-headed Merlin. 

 Blanford, No. 1264. Hume, No. IG, 

 Rather scarce. I have only secured five specimens. A male shot on 

 the 25th December 1897, a pair on the 20th October 1898, a male on the 30th 



