140 



296. 



Size small; length (^ 11.5; wing ,^ 8.25, 

 $ 9 in. ; head and hind neck chestnut red ; 

 above bluish slate, with remains of blackish 

 cross bars, except on back and scapulars ; 

 tail narrowly barred with black, with a 

 broad black subterminal band and white 

 tips ; eyebrow and moustachial stripe 

 black ; forehead, sides of head and neck, 

 throat and chest white, with a few black 

 shaft-lines on latter ; below white thickly 

 barred with black. 



Falco chicquera chicquera Daud., Traite, ii., 

 p. 121 (1800). [ex. Levaill., Bengal.] 

 Red-headed Merlin. 



Indian 

 Peninsula. 



296a. 



Size similar ; wing (J 8.6, $9.45 in. ; paler, 

 more barred above, especially on back and 

 scapulars, and with bars on breast rather 

 closer together. 



Falco chicquera riificollis Swains., Bds. 

 W. Afr., i., p. 107, pi. 2 (1837). \Senegal.T 

 African Rufous-necked Falcon. 



Tropical 

 Africa to 

 South 

 Africa. 



Size small ; length ^ about 11 in. ; wing 

 8, ? wing 8.5 in. ; (^ above dark to pale 

 slate colour, with distinct black shaft- 

 stripes, the head and wing-coverts darker ; 

 hind neck mottled with rufous buff ; upper 

 tail-coverts paler grey ; tail tipped with 

 fulvous and crossed with 3 black bands, 

 and broad subterminal one ; forehead, 

 cheeks and throat fulvous, with narrow 

 streaks of black, except on latter ; below 

 ochraceous buff, with dark brown shaft- 

 streaks, broadest on the flanks ; 9 much 

 browner above ; tail umber brown with 4 

 huffish white bands. 



* Falco horsbrttghi, Gunning and Roberts, Ann. Trans., Mus. iii., p. no 

 (191 1), [Pretoria], is a synonym of this species, a fact ascertained from a 

 drawing made by Lt. Finch Davies from the type and examined by Dr. 

 Hartert and myself. 



