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30, Note on the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus). 
By Lior. oe D. C. Partiuott, Secretary, 
ard of Examiners 
In India the female is called bahri, and the male bahri bachcha ; 
but by the Persians and Arabs both theshahin and the e peregrine 
are called shahin. In Baghdad the female peregrine is called 
shahina, more rar ely bahkriya 
down to moult, 2 lbs. 74 0z. A very fine-looking haggard, caught 
at Dera Ghazi Khan on the 25th March, 1899, weighed only 2 lbs. 
43. oz. 
number of scutelle on the middle toe of a female—scutel- 
it 22. The number of these scales, however, is no indication o 
the length of bs toe, as the scales in different individuals vary 
very much in 
The oatieetias ici India with the duck, and in the Panjab 
are usually caught on the banks of the rivers by means of a 
barak of either a Saivnk or a shahin tiercel. A bird-catcher told me 
that he once caught a peregrine tiercel with a red-headed merlin 
as a barak. Hawk-catchers state that the peregrines entering 
tows le was caught at Novitinee: The earliest date on which 
actually obser vod a wild peregrine was 4th Ostabad 1891, at Dera 
Ismail Kha 
Tn 1896, a d ear, only one young peregrine was caught 
Peshawar, ih 0 in Chhach- iy Sey fous’ i a agate and iweaty: 
one at Gurga 
In the roan of Gandi Umr Khan near Dera Ismail Khan, 
chargh- -catchers say that they catch on an average five peregrine 
‘tiercels’ a year, ter pei ‘falcons, In 1895, however, one 
’ esgic was Big ‘pitie 
regrine a pie of India later than charghs. Som 
Chhach tatocnieri tntstal that the haggards leave first, and that 
the young birds follow, making their exit with the quail. On the 
10th April, 1897, the peregrines ia ad back through the 
Bannu District, on the return migrati 
