75. FALCO. 3g'T 



white with a slight rufous tinge ; wing-coverts like the upper back, 



bWktr r. ^' r^^'n ''"f ^''' ^*'«"8ly pronounced; quills 

 blacki h shaded externally with greyish, the inner web barred with 

 pale ruious, the secondaries tipped with whitish, the inner ones 

 coloured like the back; tail bluish grey, inclining 'to ashy nLT 

 ba^e, tipped with creamy buff and barred across with black, the bars 

 towaMTth Jr \t '\'\^^f^ ^-' S^^dually increasing i^ breadth 



nal hnfF?f P ' * '°1 'f ""'^^ '''"°^y ^^i*^ ' ^PP^'- P^rt of breast 

 pale huffy fawn, unspotted ; rest of under surface a litfle deeper in 

 colour than the breast, with a greyish lustre on the flanks ; the ab- 

 domen unspotted, but the sides of the body marked with a few 

 blackish spots, inchning to bars on the under tail-coverts; under 

 wiug-coverts creamy white, barred with blackish, the axiUaries 

 more strongly tinged with fawn, and streaked down he shafts cere 

 and base of biU yeUow, horn-blue at tip ; feet yellow; iris brown 

 lotal length 13-5 inches, culnien M, wing 11, tail 5-5 tarsus 16 



foung male. General colour dark brown, darker on the intersca- 

 pulary region, aU the feathers margined with rufous ; the lower 

 back, rump, and upper taU-coverts paler brown, with bars and 

 edgings of paler rufous than the rest of the back ; aU the wing- 

 coverts very dark brown, with narrow margins of rufous ; crown of 

 the head paler brown with conspicuous margins of rufous, the fore- 

 head and fore part of crown inclining to whitish; nape and hind 

 jeck creamy white, shghtly tinged with rufous and mottled with 

 dark brown; sides of the face whitish, tinged with rufous the 

 feathers under the eye and cheek-stripe blackish brown ; unde; sui- 

 lace of the body creamy white, the throat and abdomen unspotted 

 he rest of the feathers mesially streaked with brown, narrower on 

 undp/r'l ' ^"i^ch bpoader and more rufous on the flanks, the 

 under tail-coverts with a narrow pale brownish shaft-stripe, w th a 

 faint indication of a cross bar here and there ; under wiL^crerts 

 creamy white, barred and spotted with rufous brown ; win|-coverts 

 coloured hke the back and edged with rufous in the same manner 

 the secondaries tipped with fulvous, all the quills broadly barred 

 with pale rufous on the inner web ; tail-feathers dark brown, with 



ruS fPl ^"'^''' -^PP"*^ ^^*^ '"'^"^y ^^' ^°^ -^ barred wi h 

 rufous; the bars sometimes not being continuous ; cere bluish yel- 

 low; biU pale blue; feet yellow; iris blue-black. Total le/gth 

 13-0 inches, culmen M, wing 11, tail 5-7, tarsus 1-G. ° 



onfh. w 7 '? ^"^ North-eastern Africa, as weU as Senegambia 

 on the west coast, ranging into N.W. India and the Himalayahs 



c. Ad. St. Nepaul. B. fl. Hodgson, Esq. [K]. 



7. Falco babylonicus. 



Faico peregrinoides, Iloelffs. in Grai/s Zool. J//se.p.81 (-1844) • Grau 

 Cat Mamm. Sf Birds Nepal Hodgs. p. 44 (1846) ^ "^ ' •'' 

 falco babylonicus, Gunin/, Ibi,, 1801 n i]8 ril' viJ • r ; » ^ 



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