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Falco vespertinus vespertinus L. Red- tooted 



Fai.C(jn, Fr. Faucon Kobe/. ; Cirr. Al)cn(lfalk ; Ifal. Falco cuculo. 

 (5 Above slate colour ; tail uniform ; primaries with iar^^^e 

 white spots on inner web ; beneath slaty ^rey, abdomen, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts rusty red ; 2nd primary lonj^'^est ; ist only 

 sharply emarginate towards point on inner web. Bill bright 

 orange, tip dark bluish. Round eye, cere, legs and feet orange. 

 Iris dark brown. Wing ^ 230-260, 9 230-253. Tarsus 28-30 

 (W.). Rill 11-12. 9 Upper parts pale slate with dark bars; 

 crown, nape, and rictal stripe rufous ; patch under eye black ; 

 below, rusty buff on throat and rusty red on rest of underparts ; 

 tail ashy grey barred black. Bill blue grey, yellow at base. 

 Young : crown grey tinged rufous and with black shaft streaks ; 

 upper parts grey brown with dark bars and whitish or reddish 

 buff margins ; beneath white or yellow buff striated brown ; tail 

 reddish grey with black bars. Bill as in adult ?. 



B7-ccds. — E. Europe from Balkan Peninsula through Hungary, 

 north to Poland, all Russia to far north (Archangel), and in W. 

 Siberia. Irregularly occurs farther west in Europe, rare in 

 I'ritish Isles. Migrates ; occurs on passage in Egypt and E. 

 Mediterranean, occasionally also in Tunis, Algeria, and rarely in 

 Morocco. Winters in Africa. 



Falco naumanni naumanni Fleischer. Lesser 

 Kestrel. Fr. Faucon cresserine ; Gcr. Rtitelfalk ; Ifal. Falco 

 grillaio, 



^j Above vinaceous chestnut, unspotted ; head, neck, rump, 

 upper tail coverts, tail (black tipped), outer wing coverts and 

 secondaries slate blue ; greater wing coverts chestnut ; beneath 

 reddish buff usually with black spots ; ist and 3rd primaries 

 a])out equal in length, 2nd longest and emarginate outer web, 

 1st notched on inner web near tip. Bill dark blue grey, base 

 orange and tip blue black. Cere dark yellow. Eyelid dull yellow. 

 Legs and feet yellow, claws paler than in " tinnunculus," usually 

 white but sometimes black. 9 Above rusty red, striped dark on 

 head and neck and barred on back, tail with about twelve bars, 

 with black subterminal band and buff tips ; beneath rusty buff 

 with dark brown spots. Wing ^ 220-246, 9 230-24S. Tarsus 

 30-32. P.ill 1 1-12. 



