THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Falco peregrinus calidus Latham. 
West Siberia and perhaps even in the Kirghize Steppes (where in 
any case it occurs as a migrant), and reaches eastward to Kamtschatka. 
Its migrations are enormous . . . migrates regularly to India . . . Moluccas, 
New Guinea, Japan and China. 
Falco peregrinus anatum Bonaparte. 
North America : in winter South America. 
Falco peregrinus hroolcei Sharpe. 
Spain, the northern peninsula of Marocco, Corsica, Sardinia. 
Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides Temminck. 
Eastern Canary Islands, middle and southern Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 
Egypt and Nubia. 
Falco peregrinus hahylonicus Sclater. 
Turkestan to the desert of Gobi, to Mesopotamia, Persia and Baluchistan r 
in winter North-west India. 
Falco peregrinus minor Schlegel. 
In tropical Africa, north to Fazogli on the Blue Nile, and South Africa. 
Falco peregrinus radama Hartlaub. 
Madagascar. 
Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sundevall. 
Forests of India, east to South China. 
Falco peregrinus ernesti Sharpe. 
Greater Sunda Islands, the Philippines, and New Guinea. 
Falco peregrinus macropus Swainson. 
Australia and Tasmania. 
Falco peregrinus pealei Ridgway. 
Pacific Coast region of North America ; ? Japan. 
Falco peregrinus cassini Sharpe. 
Southern South America. 
Falco peregrinus riphceus Buturlin. 
Southern Ural Mountains. 
Falco jasciinucJia Reichenow and Neumann. 
Ndara, Terta, Africa.” 
I do not propose to criticise this in detail, but I may suggest that it 
appears to be a review of the members of the group Rhynchodon, and as a 
consequence of avoiding the unnecessary burden of RJiynchodon we must 
continually repeat “ Falco peregrinus.^'' This would be a small matter were it 
not that this usage of trinomials hides facts which would otherwise stand out. 
Thus RhyncJiodon ernesti would call attention to the fact that something here 
was of more interest and that a form differing considerably from RhyncJiodon 
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