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Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 
in the Himalaya; and it remains to ascertain whether this and 
F. calidus do not grade into each other in W. Asia*. 
16. F. peregrina tor, Sund .4 (Gould B. As. pi. 36). 
Syn. F. ruber indicus, Aldrovandi; Sumatran F. communis (?), 
Gm v apud Baffles, Linn. Tr. xiii. p. 278. F.herbcecolaif), Tickell, 
J. A. S. ii. p. 570. F.shaheen, Jerdon. F. sultaneus, Hodgson. 
Hab. India,Indo-China, andMalasia; Ceylon: rare in Lower 
Bengal J. Arabia? Mesopotamia? Persia? 
( c . Desert Falcons : Gennaia, Kaup.) 
17. F. sacer, Schlegel (Gould, B. As. pi. 20; Hardw.Ill.Ind. 
Zool. pi. 25). 
Syn. F. lanarius , of Temminck & Gould. F. cherrug , Gray. 
Hab. Desert region of W. Asia and N. Africa; Punjab; 
Sulim ani and Salt ranges. 
18. F. jugger, Gray (Gould, B. As. pi. 1; Young, in Jerdon's 
Ill. Iud. Orn. pi. 44). 
Syn. F. lug gar, Jerdon. F. thermophilus, Hodgson. 
Hab. Plains of India. 
19. F. babylonicus, Gurney ( f Ibis/ 1861, p. 218). 
Syn. F. peregrinoides, Gray, Cat. Hodgson's specimens. F . 
peregrinator (part.), Horsf. Catal. 
Hab. Probably the same as F. sacer, but has doubtless been 
* From Dr. Jerdon’s forthcoming work on Indian Ornithology I quote 
(with permission) the following :—“ The Bhyri does not breed in this 
country, nor ever, I believe, in the Himalayas, but migrates to the north 
in April, and returns about the first week in October. Mr. Layard men¬ 
tions the Peregrine as breeding in Ceylon in January, and Dr. Adams says 
that he found the nest on a tree on the banks of the Indus, below Feroze- 
pore; but I imagine that in both cases an old Laggar (F. jugger) has been 
mistaken for the Bhyri.” Mr. J. H. Gurney is of opinion (expressed in 
epistola ) that the true F. peregrinus, in addition to the F. calidus, will 
prove to occur occasionally in India. 
4 Prof. Sundeval obtained his specimen on board ship, in N. lat. 6°, be¬ 
tween Ceylon and Sumatra, about seventy miles from the Nicobar Islands. 
+ In Horsfield’s ‘ Catalogue of the Birds in the India-house Museum ’ 
(i. 17) a drawing of “ F. peregrinus” is noticed, from “Sumatra. Pre¬ 
sented by Sir T. S. Raffles/’ Also No. 19 of the same work, “ Falco -? ” 
from Kumaon. Species undetermined. What is this? 
