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279. 



Smaller ; wing cJ 12.50-13.0, $ 14-14.60 in.; 

 feathers of crown dull rufous, with blackish 

 brown centres ; nape rather paler and 

 mottled with black ; above ashy brown, 

 with pale fulvous margins ; rump paler 

 and clearer grey ; tail ashy grey, tipped 

 with white ; the outer feathers barred on 

 inner web with whitish ashy ; below 

 white, with narrow black moustachial 

 stripe ; lower breast with a few dark shaft- 

 streaks, flanks and thighs ashy brown. 

 Falco jugger Gray, in Hardw. 111. Ind. 

 Zool. ii., pi. 26 (1833-4). [India.] 

 Laggar Falcon. 



Indian 

 Peninsula 

 Baluchis- 

 tan ; 

 Assam. 



280. 



Size similar ; wing (^ 12-13, $ 13-14 in. ; 

 above brown, with paler fulvous margins ; 

 crown and nape with whitish margins ; 

 tail tipped with white and all but the centre 

 pair of feathers barred on inner webs with 

 whitish, but outer webs scarcely spotted ; 

 below white, chest streaked and breast and 

 belly spotted with brown, more in form 

 of bars on flanks. 



Falco mexicanus Schleg., Abh. Geb. Zool. 

 heft iii., p. 15 (1844). [ex. Licht.— M^^^zcoJ 

 Prairie Falcon. 



W. North 



America, 



from 



S. Brit. 



Columbia 



to 



S. Mexico. 



Size small ; wing o 10-6 in. ; above ashy, 

 with indistinct fulvous margins and black- 

 ish shaft-stripes, especially distinct on 

 head and nape, latter of which is whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; tail with broad ful- 

 vous tip, and some obsolete black bars at 

 apical end ; below white, tinged with buff 

 on flanks and vent, and with narrow 

 blackish shaft-streaks, except on throat. 



