NO. 1195. BIRDS FROM CENTRAL ASIA—OBEBROLSEB. 211 



])ies at least the whole of the Himalaya region, with very probably a 

 large part of India. Birds from the Thian Shan Mountains and enst- 

 crn Turkestan are, however, paler, and apparently must be referred to 

 the European form. 



FALCO PEREGRINUS Tunstall. 



Falco pere.firlnns Tunstall, Oru. Brit., 1771, p. 1. 



Three speeiniens, all from the Valley of Cashmere. '' Iris dark 

 brown; bill horny blue, black at tip, greeuish yellow at base; cere aud 

 eyelids yellow; feet yellow; claws black. Length of male, 1C:| inches; 

 of female, li^h inches; weight of female, LM- pounds. Crop aud stomach 

 of latter contained the remains of a teal." 



One of these examples, which is apparently not quite adult, is 

 darker above than the others, with the markings below larger as well 

 as more numerous, and with a conspicuous tinge of ochraceous on the 

 abdomen. There seems to be little or no difference between similar 

 plumages of the birds from Asia aud Europe. Our limited materia^l 

 indicates that European specimens are less bkiish above and darker on 

 the head; but this distinction very possibly would not prove constant 

 in a larger series. 



The Falco ijeregrimis of Tunstall, as above quoted, is apparently the 

 earliest available name for the peregrine falcon, being 17 years prior 

 to Gmelin's names. Most of the new specific designations in Tunstall's 

 Ornithologica Britannica are mere nomina nuda, but some, among 

 them Falco peregrmus, have references to Pennant's British Zoology, 

 and are thus rendered tenable. 



MILVUS GOVINDA Sykes. 



Milvus (jovinda Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, jj. 81. 



One adult male from the Valley of Cashmere, December 4, 1895. 

 "Iris brown; bill black, horny blue at base; cere pale horny; feet 

 dirty white; claws black. Length, 24i^ inches." 



HALI.^ETUS LEUCORYPHUS (Pallas). 



Aquila Uucorijpha Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, 1, 1771, p. 454. 



Haliaeios leucoryplia Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, p. xxx. 



Two specimens; one of them a male from the Hanle Eiver, Eupshu, 

 Ladak, taken September 2, 1897. " Length, 30i inches. Poisoned while 

 feeding on the dead carcass of a wild ass (Kiang)." The other example 

 is a female from Woolar Lake, V^ale of Cashmere, September 16, 1895. 

 "Iris brownish gray; bill dull black; cere and base of bill grayish 

 white; feet dirty white; claws black. Length, 31^ inches. Feeds on 

 dead fish and carrion ; foully dirty." 



The i)lumage of the female has much ochraceous, the tips and edges 

 of the feathers everywhere being more or less tinged with either this 



