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287. 



Larger; wing ^ 12.40-12.90; ? 12-90- 

 13.35 in. ; sexes dissimilar ; cJ general 

 colour blackish slate, browner on upper 

 parts ; outer tail-feathers slightly barred 

 with blackish ; below with a trace of 

 rufous, but the thighs dark slate ; $ dark 

 slate brown above, tail barred with rufous 

 and blackish ; hind cheeks and throat deep 

 buff, with a conspicuous black moustachial 

 stripe ; breast huffish, becoming rufous on 

 abdomen, striped with black ; thighs deep 

 chestnut. 



Falco eleonorce Gene, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 

 105. [Sardinia.] 

 Eleonora's Falcon. 



Islands of 

 Mediter- 

 ranean ; W. 

 Canaries ; 

 N. Africa, 

 Algeria to 

 Morocco ; 

 in winter S. 

 to Mada- 

 gascar. 



288. 



Smaller ; wing (^ 10.40, ? 11.2 in. ; sexes 

 similar ; uniform leaden grey with black 

 shaft-stripes to the feathers ; primaries 

 and tail with whitish bands on inner webs ; 

 cere, orbits and feet bright yellow ; bill 

 bluish. 



Falco concolor Temm. PI. Col., pi. 330 

 (1825). ["Senegal, Cotes de Barberie, Egypt, 

 Arabia — typ. loc. sugg. : Arabia.] [F. 

 eleonorcE schistaceus Erlang., a synonym ?] 

 Uniform Falcon. 



E. Africa 

 (coast from 

 Red Sea to 

 Madagas- 

 car) : 

 Arabian 

 Coast. 



Wing (J 8.5, $ 9.1 in. ; above slaty black ; 

 head, cheeks and ear-coverts deep black ; 

 throat and sides of neck creamy white, 

 washed with ferruginous ; below chestnut, 



