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274. 



Length ? about 18 in. ; wing 13.85-14.60, 

 ^ wing 12-12.75 in. ; head, hind neck and 

 wing-coverts blackish, as also cheeks, ear- 

 coverts and short moustachial stripe ; 

 forehead and sides of neck behind ear- 

 coverts white ; rest of upper parts bluish 

 slate, barred or arrow-headed with black- 

 ish ; tail broadly barred with black and 

 tipped with white ; below white, with a 

 buff tinge on breast, the chest with narrow 

 black shaft stripes, breast spotted and 

 belly and under tail-coverts irregularly 

 barred with black ; bill bluish ; feet yellow. 

 Immature biowii above, with paler mar- 

 gins, including head ; tail barred with pale 

 rufous ; immature also without the black 

 head and longitudinally marked below. 

 Falco peregrinits peregrinus Tunst., Orn. 

 Brit., p. 1 (1771). [Ex Pennant— G/. 

 Britain.] 

 Peregrine Falcon. 



Europe, 

 N. of 

 Mediter- 

 ranean ; in 

 winter to 

 Africa ; cas. 

 Greenland. 



With the black of cheeks and ear-coverts 

 reduced to a narrow stripe and the white 

 band behind much increased. 

 274a. Falco peregrinus calidus Lath., Ind. Orn. 

 l.,p. 41 (1790). [India.] 

 Siberian Peregrine Falcon. 



N. Asia, 



W. Siberia ; 



in winter to 



India, 



Ceylon, 



China, 



Egypt, 



Cyprus, 



N. Africa, 



and Malay 



Archipel. 



Very slightly larger ; wing ^ 13-13,15, 

 2 14.60-14.80 in. ; chest with a more 



