THE PEREGRINE. 
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each feather with the shaft black, the central portion more or less blackish 
and with numerous broken indistinct bar-like spots on both webs ; quills 
dark brown, the inner webs barred with white ; tail dark ashy, closely but 
indistinctly barred with blackish, the tip white ; chin, throat and upper 
breast white, the latter with a few black shaft-streaks ; lower breast, centre 
of the abdomen, vent, thighs and under tail-coverts white washed with 
rufous and with heart- or arrowhead-shaped spots ; sides of the body 
barred with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with broken 
bars of black. 
The young are brown above, each feather edged with rufous ; the bars 
on the inner webs of the quills rufous, not white ; the tail ashy brown, 
tipped with rufous white, the central feathers with some rufous spots, the 
laterals with rufous bars on the inner webs ; cheeks and broad moustachial 
stripe black, as in the adult ; chin, throat and a patch behind the mous- 
tache white, with a few fine shaft-marks ; an indistinct white collar round 
the hind neck; lower plumage pale rufous-white, densely streaked with 
ruddy brown ; under wing-coverts rufous-brown, the feathers margined 
paler. 
Iris dark brown ; cere and gape bright yellow ; eyelids pale yellow ; 
base of bill plumbeous, tip dark horn- colour ; legs bright yellow ; claws 
black. 
Length about 16 inches, tail 6*5, wing 12*5, tarsus 1'9, bill from 
gape 1*2. The female is much larger : length about 17 inches, tail 7*5, 
wing 14' 5, tarsus 2' 2, bill from gape 1*3. 
The Peregrine is found over the whole of Burmah, but is nowhere 
common. I have, however, procured it pretty often in Pegu at Prome, 
Shwaygheen and Kyeikpadein ; and Mr. Davison noticed it in Tenasserim 
at Thatone and Amherst. 
The range of the Peregrine is very extensive, and it is found in nearly 
every portion of the world. 
It appears to be a constant resident in Burmah ; for I have procured it 
in February, May and November ; but I have not, however, observed any 
indications of its breeding in this country. It makes its nest in trees, on 
the faces of cliffs and occasionally on the ground, laying two to four 
eggs, which are richly marked with various shades of bright rufous. 
The specimens of the Peregrine that I have myself shot in Pegu were 
found in tracts of paddy-land near forests. 
