418 FALCONID^. 



p. 16 (1862) ; Bh/th, Ibis, 1863, p. 8 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1865, p. 258 ; 



Farm. Ibis, 1868,' p. 409 ; Goukl, B. of Asia, pt. xx. (1868) ; Grai/, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 20 (1869) ; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 62 (1869) ; 



Mw. S) Buck/. Ibis, 1870, p. 73 ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 16 



(1871) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 238 ; Radcl. t. c. p. 365 ; Sivinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 340. 

 Falco lanarius. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 330 (1811) ; Temm. Man. 



d'Orn. i. p. 20 (1820) ; Wenwr, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 7 (1827) ; 



Gould, B. of Eur. i. pi. 20 (1837) ; Bp. Camp. List B. Fur. 6i- N. 



Am. p. 4 (1838) ; Schl. u. Susem. Vof/. Fur. Taf. 7a (1839) ; Cara, 



Om. Sard. p. 6 (1842) ; J. F. Gra'i/, Cat. Mamm. ^ Birds Nepal 



Hodgs. p. 43 (1844) ; Ilorsf ^- Moore, Cat. B Mus. F. I. Co. p. 22 



(1854) ; Fritsch, Vog. Fur. tab. 2. figs. 6, 7 (1858) ; Taylor, Ibis, 



1859, p. 43. 

 Falco chen-ug, J. F. Gray, El. Lid. Orn. ii. pi. 25 (1833). 

 Falco milvipes, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844) ; Jerd. 



Ibis, 1271, p. 240. 

 Falco cvanopus, Thienem. Rhea, i. p. 62, Taf. 1, 2 (1846) ; id. Abbild. 



Vogeieiern, Taf. 51. figs. 2 a, d (1854). 

 Le Sacre hagard, Schl. S^- Verst. Traite Fauc. pi. 9 (1863). 

 Gennaia sacer, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536 ; Loche, Fxpl. 



Sci. Alger, p. 50 (1867). 

 Saker, Salvin Sf Brodr. Falconry, pi. xv. (1855). 

 Falco saqer, Heugl. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 27 (1869). 

 Falco hendersoni, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 407 ; id. 8f Henders. Lahore 



to Yark. p. 171, pi. 1 (1873). 

 Pnigohierax lanarius, Cab. J. f. 0. 1872, p. 156. 



Adult male. Head pale rufous, sometimes bleached quite white, 

 with narrow blackish shaft-stripes ; upper surface pale earthy 

 brown, all the feathers margined ^vith rufous ; quills brown, deeply 

 indented with white or rufous-white notches or bars, fewer in 

 number on the secondaries ; tail pale brown, barred with whitish on 

 on the inner web, and ovally spotted on the outer one, these not 

 being continuous or forming bars, sides of the face and tliroat pure 

 white, with a few little dusky streaks on the hinder ear-coverts, 

 the moustache scarcely indicated ; under surface of body whitish, 

 the chest very slightly, the breast and flanks more thickly, streaked 

 down the centre with brown, these streaks somewhat widening 

 towards the tip of the feather ; thighs distinctly streaked with 

 brown, the abdomen and under tail-coverts unspotted ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, streaked with brown, the latter brown 

 in the centre, white on the margins, with a few bars at the base of 

 the feather ; cere, orbits, and feet yellow ; biU pale greenish horn- 

 colour, darker at tip, the lower mandible pale yellow at base ; iris 

 brown. Total length 18-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 13-2, tail 7'3, 

 tarsus 2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. Total length 

 24-7 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 15-8, tail 9-8, tarsus 2-1. 



Young male. Above brown, some of the feathers shaded with 

 greyish and edged with rufous, which is more conspicuous on the 

 feathers of the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; the feathers 

 which are appearing on the inner secondaries have conspicuous rufous 



