lO. FALCO. 



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bill slaty blue-black at tip ; feet yellow ; iris deep brown. Total 

 length IG inches, culmen 1-45, wing 12, tail 6-7, tarsus 2-25 



ro2mff. Blackish, the nape and sides of neck mottled with rufous • 

 the wing-coverts and secondaries margined with rufous, these mar- 

 gins being nearly obsolete on the rest of the upper surface ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail blackish, barred with rufous, which is gradually 

 disappearing on the central tail-feathers; under surface rich tawuv 

 paler towards tlie chest, the throat white and unspotted, all the rest 

 ot the feathers longitudinally streaked with black, these central 

 markings being heart- or zigzag arrow-shaped on the flauks, where, 

 as weU as on the under wing- and tail-coverts, they take the form 

 or cross bars. 



Ilab. Indian peninsula and Himalayas. 



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3. Falco minor. (Plate XII.)* 



Falco peregrinoides Smith, S. Afr. Q. Jonrn. i. p. 236 (1830, mc 



J emni.) ; Aai/p, Cotitr. Orn. 1850, -p. 5o 

 ^"n^-n!""-:,^^'- ^''-/i '^^"•'^ ''' ^'"'^- 1850, p. 484; id. Cmsp. p. 2.'J 



p. 83 (18o5) ; Gtinmj, Ibis, 1861, p. 181 ; Scl. Ibis, 1864, p. 298 ; 

 I^yard B S. Afr. p. 19 (1867) ; ul. Ibis, 1869, p! 302 ;' Lrney, 

 f'i' ^^^^^P- 4^3 ; Graj,, Hand-l. B. i. p. 19 (1869) ; .ffo,«.y«. 

 J. J. U. ia/1, p. yl ; Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. cd. Gurimi, p. 12 (1872) : 

 Sliarpe, Ann. N. H. (4) xi. p. 224 (1873) 

 Falco radama,^;;. Rev. et May. de Zool. 18o4, p. 536 (^r Verr. 



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Falco communis, var. minor, Sundev. Krit. om Levaill. p. 26 (1857) 

 Palco peregnnus, var. eapeusis, Grill, Zool. Antechi. p. 48 (1858) 

 i-alco communis minor, ISchl. Mus. P.-B. Falc p 4 (1802) 

 Falco communis Grand. Bev. et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 7; ScM. &■ 



Poll Fattn. Maday. Ois. p. 31 (1868). , ^^-'^^ 



Falco barbarus, Blnnf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 288 (1870). 



Younr,. Forehead whitish ; head blackish brown, with obsolete 

 rutous margins, the nape and hind neck deep rufous, mottled with 

 b ack ; cheeks, region of the eyes, and upper margin of ear-coverts 

 black ; rest of the side of the face rufous white ; upper surface of 

 body deep blackish brown, with rufous margins to the feathers 



Levaillants plate 28 answers, as Professor SundevaU well remarks to this 

 spec.es If ,ts prominent crest did not force the conviction of its beingrlni ! 

 factured bircl Thus it must remain doubtful; but should it ever be fully 

 identified a fact very improbable to be consummated, as M. Jules vTrreaus 

 believes it to have been a doctored Ba,a), the synonymy .Wll be as follows :- 



Le Faucon huppe, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 121 pi o^ nrgg-) 



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Falco galericulatus. Hhaw, Gen. Zool. vii. ji. 140, pi. 20 (1809). 



