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Slightly smaller; wing ^ 10.65-11.20, 

 $ 11.05-11.35 in. ; duller in colour than 

 F. p. peregrinus and with the dark bars 

 on abdomen closer together. 

 274e. Falco peregrinus minor Schleg., Abh. Geb. 

 Zool. & Vergl. Anat., heft iii.. p. 20 (1844). 

 [Mtns. of Cape of Good Hope.] 

 S. African Peregrine Falcon. 



Africa,, 

 from Cape 

 Colony to 

 the 

 Blue Nile. 



Smaller than F. p. peregrinus ; wing $ 

 12.0-13.0 in. ; below tawny ferruginous, 

 paler on throat and sides of neck, marked 

 on flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts 

 with a few spots and cross bars of black. 

 274f. Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sund., Phy- Indian 



siogr. Sallskapets Tidsskr. Lund, i., p. 177, Peninsula 

 taf. 4 (1837). [Indian Ocean, off Nicobar E. to S. 

 Is.] China. 



Indian Peregrine Falcon. 



Wing (^ 11.65-12 in. ; ? 13.25-13.50 in., 

 ^ head and nape deep black, including 

 sides of face, cheeks and ear-coverts ; 

 interscapulary region blackish, with obso- 

 lete bars of bluish grey ; rest of upper 

 parts bluish ashy, barred with black ; 

 tail blackish tipped with white, with broad 

 subterminal and 1 1 other bars of black ; 

 thioat and chest deep creamy buff, latter 

 with a few black shaft stripes ; below 

 buffy white closely and narrowly barred 

 with black, the sides and thighs tinged with 

 grey ; ? more ferruginous below and with 

 the cross bars more irregular. 

 274g. Falco peregrinus macropus Swains.. Anim. E. and W. 

 in Menag., p. 341 (Jan. 1838). [Tasmania] Australia, 

 [=F. p. melanogenys Gould.] Tasmania. 



Black-cheeked Falcon. 



Size similar ; wing ^ 11.6 in. ; darker 

 above ; chest much more rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries more closely 



