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♦281. Microhierax fringillarius (Drapiez), Diet. S. Tenasserim, 

 Class. d'Hist. Nat. VI., p. 412, pi. 5 (1824). Malay Peninsula 



(" Indes " — type loc. sugg. Malacca.] 

 Malayan Pigmy Falcon. 



Wing ^ 90, 9 102 mm. ; without the white 

 collar on hind neck ; no white eyebrow 

 but sides of neck with a white patch ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts forming a large 

 rounded patch of black ; chest white ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts pale chest- 

 nut, the longer under tail-coverts and 

 whole flanks glossy black ; tail with 5 or 6 

 white bars on inner webs, first one con- 

 cealed ; wing quills spotted rather than 

 barred on inner webs. 



Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



*282. Microhierax melanoleiicus melanoleiicus 

 (Blyth), Jnl. As. Soc. Beng. XII., pt. 1, 

 p. 179* (1843). [Assam.] 

 Black and White Pigmy Falcon. 



Slightly larger ; wing S 108, $ 121 mm. ; 

 above glossy black ; forehead, narrow line 

 above eye and down side of neck as well 

 as entire under parts white ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts as well as sides of breast black ; 

 thighs white ; wing quills broadly banded 

 with white on inner webs ; tail with 5 or 6 

 white bars on inner webs. 



Assam, 

 Cachar to 

 Indo-China ? 



282a. Microhierax melanoleucus sinensis Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 254 [ex M. chinensis, David, 

 Bull. Soc. Philom. Seance 27 Fevr. 1875 

 (pub. 1877), {Kiangsi Prov.)]. 

 Chinese Pigmy Falcon. 



Size similar ; wing ad. 108 mm. ; similar, 

 but having an irregular white nape band 



S. China. 



