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° f8 ^ l feeUbovfthe • The nest near Yernoe was on a pine (JPinus schrenkiana ) at a height 
20. u Genus HIEROFALCO. 
merofa ^ 0 GYRFALC0 - ( Plate !•) 
Falco lyr/r^ alC ° ^ ; Shar P e ’ Cat - B - Brit - Yus. i. p. 416 (1874). 
N 0 J °’ Horne yer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 82. 
T , . ? J uv - Yarkand, May 15, 1874. 
'^I'falcoo se a * 0un S bird doubtless, which I expected to prove to be one of the forms of 
Coj Hparj SOll Plated by Dr. Menzbier, but the immaturity of the specimen prevents any exact 
a very 1 \ s P ecaes figured by him. The accompanying Plate by Mr. Keulemans 
r °ni E llro * 00t Portrait of the Yarkand specimen, which, as far as I can see, is not different 
'°Plars of tp " ln S ^ Ins °P Sierofalco gyrfalco. Dr. Stoliczka’s diary does not give any par. 
° r W bcpr. G 1QC ^ V * dua b nor does it state whether the bird had been captured in a wild state 
As USed for hawking. 
9yrfal Co aS d can see there is no difference between the Yarkand bird and true 
hj r( | ^’ o and d cannot understand what H. uralensis of Menzbier can be, for the adult 
° Ure d by him (Orn. Turkest. pi. v.) is undoubtedly H. candicans ! 
C^ ALC ° MlLVIp ES. 
l ' a lco henJe >eS ’ Poi ^ s - in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), descr. nulla; Jerdon, Ibis, 1871 (April), p. 240. 
Scnlly ? l° W * J Pume J Ibis, 1871 (October), p. 407; id. & Henders. Lahore to Yarlc. p. 171, pi. 1 (1873) ; 
1883 !, -o' * ' * v - P- ll 7 (1876) ; Prjey. in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. ii. p. 149 (1877) ; Severtz. Ibis, 
1 P* «o. 
^ I considered in 1874 to be the final stage of plumage of the old Hierofalco 
species ^d was a mistake, and am inclined to recognize H. milvipes as a 
r ' liutn e Co -n’ Henderson writes: — “A single specimen, a male, of this species, which 
^ e ml)er, ] G f S J 10 Hie Shanghai’ of Eastern Ealconers, was shot on the 14th of 
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Kitchik Yilak in undulating country just north of the Sanju Pass, and 
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S |. < ' e,s °r bushes Wpere Hie plains of Yarkand may be said to commence. There are no 
j., 0 A grass, on ,V° ld ’ ^nt Hie climate here is comparatively moist, and there is abundance of 
i\t^ anU(s ) Were } ^° rders which thousands of the Tibetan Snow- Pheasant ( Tetraogallus 
opiate neio-M Served * Other Ealcons, apparently of this species, were noticed in the 
aiUed.” & JOUl 'bood, but it was never seen elsewhere, and only one specimen was 
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a^cf this bird^ tain ® d a female at Kashghar, November 1874. He adds: — “The Turki 
Positi Ve / r f . 1S ' Aitalgu, 5 and all competent authorities in such matters in Kashgharia 
oj^tau, hut'i hat ls H'C female of the famed ‘Shunkar.’ The bird is rare in Eastern 
of j Si °bally obta' Sai f - t0 1)0 & P ermanent resident and to breed there. I heard that it was 
Y ;u , ol) ; from th'T; 1U tll<3 ■ Dolan forest-region— in the direction of Aksu ; from the district 
The «' si lUS nCar Sar 'i u > and from tlie neighbourhood of Karchung, south-west of 
*7* d is at o Unkar> is tlle m ost highly prized of all the Ealcons, and whenever one is 
e X p e l ? t i the < WiM ta ^ Gn t0 the Amir = th e Dad Khwah of Yarkand, or the Governor of the 
Y Al ' le bCed old Y U p U ' - S n ° fc at a11 l )Jazed ’ and is considered hardly worth training. An 
r (! J tlll( l ’ one da ai ^ audl bird-catcher, in looking at the pictures in my copy of ‘ Lahore to 
<Allt ati 0u 0 f fj! aXed orL Plafe of Falco hendersoni and said at once that it w 
1 e Shunkar. Perfectly white Shunkar (albinos) were mentioned to me 
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