75. 1.-ALC0. 389 



mi the culmen and at tip; feet bright yellow; iris dark brown. 

 Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 12, tail 6-0, tarsus 1*U. 

 Hah. N.E.Africa; Mesopotamia ; Central Asia, Turkestan ; N.W. 

 India to Nepaul. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



c. Sternum. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



8. Falco feldeggii *. 



Falco feldeggii, Sckl. Ahlumdl. Geb. Zool. p. 3, Taf. 10, 11 (1841) ; id. 



ii( Susem. Voy. Eta: Taf. 8 a (1841); Licht. Nomencl. p. 5 (1854); 



Brehni, Naum. 1855, p. 208; Fritsch, V'uy. Eur. tab. 5. ligs. 1, 2 



(1859). 

 Falco lanarius, SM. Crit. Uehers. p. ii (1844) ; Bp. Cousp. i. p. 24 



(1850) ; Tn'str. Ibis, 1859, p. 284; Jaub. >§• Barth. Lap. Hick. Oni. 



p. 54, pi. 5 (1859) ; SM. Mm. F.-B. Falc. p. 14 (1862); GotM, 



B. of Asia, -pt. XX. (18li8) ; Farm. Ibis, 1868, p. 411; Gray,Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 19 (1869) ; Borqqr. Vogelf. Deutschl. p. 55 (1809) ; Salvad. 



Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 17 (1871) ; Shelley, B. of Eyypt, p. 188 (1872) ; 



Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 35 (1873). 

 Falco rubeus, Tlwmein. Rhea, i. p. 72 (1840). 

 Le Lauier bagard, Schl. Sf Verst. Traits Faiic. pi. 10 (1853). 

 Genuaia lanarius, Bp. Rev. et Marj. de Zool. 1854, p. 536; LocJie, 



Expl. Sci. Alyer. p. 53 (1867). 

 Lanuer, Salvin ^- Brodr. Falconry, pi. xvi. (1855). 

 Falco peregrinoides, Fritsch, Voy. Eur. tab. 2. figs. 1, 2 (1858). 

 Falco biarniicus, Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 44 ; Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 10. 

 Falco tanypterus, Koniy-Warth. Ibis, 1860, p. 122. 

 Falco lanarius grtecus, *&/*/. Mus. P.-B. Falc. p. 15 (1862). 



Achdt male. Above ashy brown, with fulvous margins to the fea- 

 thers, some of which are also barred across with the same colour ; 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark bluish 

 grey, with black cross bars, the latter shading rather into fulvous ; 

 wing-coverts all coloured like the upper back, with a scarcely pro- 

 nounced grey shade ; quiUs dark brown, externally washed with 

 ashy grey ; the inner Aveb so broadly barred with whitish that the 

 alternate brown bars are imperfect and very small; secondaries 

 tipped with buffy white, the innermost browner and more resembling 

 the wing-coverts ; tail ashy brown, with a distinct greyish shade 

 on the centre feathers, these more obsoletely, the others distinctly 



* Professor Schlegel named this bird as abovo, but afterwards reverted to the 

 iiiinie of Falco lanarius, because he became convinced that it was the Lanner of 

 old falconers. We have, however, to deal with the question of the proper title 

 of tliis species according to the recognized rules of nomenclature. Falco 

 lanarius is Gmelin's title, taken direct from Linna'us's bird of the same name 

 (Faun. Suec. p. 22. no. 62). This is irrecognizable, but looks like a young 

 Peregrine ; it certainly is not the Falcon now known as the true Lanner. It is 

 likewise mixed up with the Lanier of Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 243), and the 

 Lanncret of Albin (Nat. Hist, of Birds, ii p. 7, pi. 7). Considering the confu- 

 sion ill which tlw specific name is involved, it seems better to adopt the term of 

 Falco felilcygii, which undoubtedly belongs to the species. 



