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17. Falco babylonicus. 



Falco tscherniaievi, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 63^ 114 (1873). 

 Falco barbarus, Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 118 (1876). 



Falco babylonicus, Gurney; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 79 (1869); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 106; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 388 (1874) ; Scully, Str. ¥. iv. p. 118 (1876). 



Dr. Scully supposed that he got bpth species of Eed-headed Peregrine in Eastern 

 Turkestan, but his specimens are all referable to F, babylonicus {of, Gurney, Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 158). 



18. Ealco subbtjteo. 



Falco subbuteo, L.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 395 (1874) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 (1873) ; 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 108; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 105 (1876); Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 39; Scully, 

 ibid. p. 417; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 82; Badde, Ornis, iii. p. 468 (1887). 



HypotriorcMs subbuteo, Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 174 (1873); Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 119 

 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 150 (1877) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 29 (1885). 



No. 882. Kiwaz, October 26, 1873. [A young bird.] 

 No. 1748. Yarkand, May 21, 1874. [Adult bird.] 



Dr. Henderson found the Hobby not at all uncommon about Yangi Bazar, eight miles 

 from Yarkand ; and Dr. Scully says that it is a '' seasonal yisitant to the plains of Eastern 

 Turkestan, where it breeds. It arrives in the neighbourhood of Yarkand in May, but not in 

 any considerable numbers, and migrates, it is supposed towards India, in October, when the 

 trees begin to lose their leaves. On our return journey to India in August this species was 

 observed on five different occasions at our various halting-stages, but was not seen after 

 leaving Sanju on the 14tli of August. The Turki name for the Hobby is 'Jaghalbai.' " 



19. Palco kegulus. 



Falco regulus, Pall.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 406 (1874). 



Falco (Bsalon, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 107; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 105 



(1876); Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 39; Scully, ibid. p. 417; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 99; Severtz. Ibis, 



1883, p. 54; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 82. 

 Lithofalco cesalon, Scully, Str. F, iv. p. 120 (1876). 

 HypotriorcMs cesalon, Prjev. in Eowley^s Orn. Misc. i. p. 151 (1877). 



The Merlin was not procured by Dr. Stoliczka himself, but Colonel Biddulph says that 

 he shot one about 16 miles to the east of Yarkand in November; this was the only one 

 seen north of the Karakorum. Dr. Scully writes : — '' The Turki name for the Merlin is 

 ' Tarumtai,' and it is said to live and breed in the hills of Eastern Turkestan. It visits the 

 plains about Kashghar and Yarkand, in small numbers only, in winter — principally during 

 the months of November and December, I think." 



Dr. Severtzow gives the following note on the species in the Pamir range : — " The 

 Merlin was seen at the end of July in the Bash-Alai. It probably breeds in the north Alai 

 range. I found it breeding in the mountains near Vernoe in June 1879, and obtained for 

 my collection a pair, male and female, with three nestlings, which all died soon, though fed 

 on freshly-shot small birds only, which they ate greedily, and which was the food given them 

 by their parents. They were taken too youog, being only just out of the egg. Vernoe 

 (43^ N.) and Perghana (39° 45' N.), on the north Alai range, are unusually southern, although 



