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Eab. — The whole continent of India from Cape Comorin to the 

 Himalayas, (Bengal, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces and Kutch,) 

 affecting open plains. Outside of India it is found in Asia Minor, 

 Egypt, Nepaul and Yarkand. 



It is not common in Sind, and occurs during winter only, arriving 

 at the same time as F. peregrinus, but of its departure nothing is on 

 record. All specimens obtained in Sind are in the young or imma- 

 ture phase, with the upper parts brown, the head a yellowish white 

 colour, and the body beneath brown. 



Falco juggur, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Orn. ii. pi. xx.; Cat. Mam- 

 mals, and Birds Nepaul ; Hume, Rough Notes, vol, i, p. 70 ; Str. 

 i^., vol. i. p. 152; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus., p. 393; Murray, 

 Hdhk., Zool., 8fc., Sind. Faloo luggur, Je7-d. Madras Journ. x. p. 80 ; 

 id. III. Ind. Orn. pi. xliv. 1847. Lugger (female), Juggur (male). 

 Hind — The Luggue Falcon. 



Adult Male. — Above dusky ashy or slate colour ; crown of head dull 

 rufous with central ashy black striations. Lores, forehead, chin, throat 

 and eyebrow white, moustachial stripe black ; wing-coverts concolorous 

 with the back, the carpal margin white. The breast white with a few 

 brown spots. Lower abdomen, flanks, and thighs ashy brown. Tail 

 clear ashy grey with pale rufous bars on the inner webs and a 

 white tip. 



Length. — 15'5 to ] 7 inches, wing 1]*8, tail 7, tarsus 1"95, culmen 

 ]. Female 17 to 19 inches, wing 13"6 to 15"6, tail 8 to 8"5, tarsus 

 1-95 to 2. 



Young, of a chocolate brown above and below ; wing-coverts with 

 rufous margins. Head yellowish-fawn or pale rufous. Forehead and 

 eyebrow whitish. Chin and throat white. Under tail-coverts dirty 

 white with faint brown markings. 



Hob. — Throughout India and Nepaul. Breeds in Sind from February 

 to April on mosques, church steeples, trees, or cliffs of rocks, laying 2 to 

 4 white eggs thickly spotted and speckled all over with a brick-red or 

 reddish brown colour. 



Falco babylonicus, Ourney, Ibis, 1861, p. 218, pi. vii.; Jerd. 

 B. of Ind., vol. i, p. 32; Ibis, 1866, p. 221; Hume, Rough Notes, 

 i, p. 79; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870; Cat. Ace. Br. Mus., p. 388; Str. 

 F., vii. p. 329 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sj-c, Sind, — Tiie Eed-headed 

 Lannee. 



Young' Male. — Dark earthy brown, some of the feathers of the crown 

 obscurely margined, the nape and hind neck mottled, the lower back 

 and rump edged, and the upper tail-coverts also barred with rufous. 

 Tail dark brown, spotted on the outer web and banded on the inner 

 one with rufous, the two centre feathers nearly obsqletely barred. Quills 

 dark brown, barred with pale buff on the inner web; the secondaries 

 paler brown, edged and spotted on the outer web with rufous. Feathers 

 under the eye and cheek stripe blackish brown. Sides of the face 



