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Birds of Celebes: Falconidae. 
lesidGnt in Burmah. The southward migration through Gilgit and the Hindoo 
Koosh has been observed by IVIajor Scully to take place in October and the 
return in April (c 4). About the lower Yangtse Mr. F. W. Sty an speaks of 
it as a common resident species, but an influx of specimens from the North 
takes place in autumn, h urther south in China it is a common winter visitor, 
at Foochow, Mr. De la Touche found it abundant from October to spring. In 
North Borneo and Labuan birds of this race, according to Mr. Everett, appear 
in the N. E. monsoon, “and are doubtless regular winter migrants, probably from 
China” (d 7). Mr. Whitehead, also, rejDorts it to be a winter migrant to 
Palawan. 
The Australian Peregrine, melanogenys , is less well understood. It is 
known to breed in Australia laying two or three eggs in September — October, 
the Australian spring (e^). At this time of year a specimen has been obtained 
in Sumatra by Beccari, and Bocarme’s notes show that a form of Peregrine 
Falcon breeds in Java, making its nest in trees in the mountain forests; but, 
as Schlegel, who published these remarks, did not distinguish the different 
races of F. peregrinus by name, it is not certain to which race — if to only one 
— Bocarme’s observations refer. Dr. Sharpe believes that Java and Borneo 
are inhabited by a peculiar local race of Peregrines [ernesti)\ Seebohm con- 
sidered that F. melanogenys breeds in Sumatra and Java as well as Australia {c7). 
In the lower A^angtse Basin, Mr. F. W. Styan has recorded a pair of F. melano- 
genys as breeding there, but the dark form in South China has been identified 
by Mr. H. H. Slater with the Indian F. peregrmator Sun dev. (j i3). Falco 
evnesti was observed breeding in Negros by Mr. Whitehead. Any conclusion 
as to a possible migration from Australia during the winter of that country — 
the months of our summer — cannot be made, owing to the absence in literature 
of actual observations and of dates when sjDecimens were shot. The bird is 
either decidedly rare in the archipelago, or more difficult to obtain than the 
generality of birds of prey. 
That F. melanogenys occurs very rarely in Celebes — possibly as a straggler — • 
is evident from the fact that the only specimen of which there is any record 
from this island, is one which Prof. W. B la sins laid before a meeting of the 
Naturhistorischen Verein at Brunswick in 1886, as reported in a newspaper 
account of the sitting (ed). It is possible, however, that v. Po sen b erg’s note, 
stating that he found F. communis not common in the island (d 4) may concern 
this form of Peregrine. 
A closer examination of the specimen from Sumba sent by Dr. Riedel 
to the Dresden Museum has served to show us that the bird belongs to the 
southern race, and not to the northern one with which it was at first identified. 
Therefore both subspecies occur on Sumba (c 5). 
