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8 {bis)» Falco Hendersoni^ Hume. — The Slianghar. 
(Plate I.) 
A single specimen, a male, of this species, which Mr. Hume 
considers to be the Shanghar of Eastern falconers, was shot on 
the 14th September, 1870, at Kitchik Yilak in undulating 
country just north of the Sanju Pass, and 40 miles from 
Sanju, where the plains of Yarkand. may be said to commence. 
There are no trees or bushes about, but the climate here is 
comparatively moist, and there is abundance of short grass, 
on the upper borders of which thousands of the Thibetan. 
Snow-pheasant {Tetraogallus tibetanus) were observed. Other 
Falcons, apparently of this species, were noticed in the 
immediate neighbourhood, but it was never seen elsewhere, 
and only one specimen was obtained. [G. H.~\ 
The best description that can be given of the general 
appearance of the upper surface is that it resembled that of a 
female Kestrel. Below the bird is almost spotless, except on 
the flanks. The cheek stripe is very long and narrow. The 
bill short, with a slight festoon and a rather blunt tooth. 
The tarsus and toes short, the former feathered in front for 
three-fifths of its length, the claws comparatively short, and 
singularly blunt for a Falcon. But it must be borne in 
mind that where this specimen was foimd not a trace of a tree 
is to be seen, and the bird must at all times perch on rocks or 
amongst shingle. Moreover, it is probably a very old male, 
and these facts may account for the bluntness of the bill- 
tooth and of the claws. Neither of the first primaries are 
fully developed, and it is impossible, therefore, to ascertain 
what proportion they would bear to the second. In some 
respects, this species reminds us of the Gyr Falcon, in others 
of the Saker, but in many points it diflPers so far from any 
known species that some ornithologists will doubtless consider 
it deserving of generic separation. 
Long ago Major Delme Radcliffe wrote to me as follows : 
" Have you ever got an enormous Falcon of the Saker 
type ^ Charkh,' an adult marked throughout like a young 
female Kestrel, except that the breast is pure white, save 
only a very few bell-shaped spots ? I got one once ; at 
