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white ; below pale buffy fawn, breast 

 unspotted, but sides with a few blackish 

 spots, becoming bars on under wing and 

 tail-coverts. Younger birds dark brown 

 above, with rufous margins ; hind neck 

 creamy white, tinged with rufous ; below 

 creamy white, breast and flanks streaked 

 with brown, more broadly on the latter. 



304a. Falco pelegrinoides arabicus Erlanger, J.f.O. S.W. Arabia, 



1903, p. 293. [Lahadsch, type in Berlin Erythraea, 



Mus.] Somaliland ; 



Arabian Falcon. cas. Sudan (r 



Said to be darker above. 



304b. Falco pelegrinoides babylonicus Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 218, pi. vh. [Oudh, type in 

 Norwich Mus.] 

 Red-capped Falcon. 



Larger ; wing c? 304, ? 329 mm. ; above 

 hghter bluish grey ; fore part of crown 

 more rufous ; hind part of crown greyish 

 black ; nape and hind neck clear rufous, 

 with darker centres to many of the feathers; 

 below buffy white, with arrow-head brown 

 spots on centre of belly and bars on the 

 sides ; throat and chest unspotted. 



W. and C. Asia 

 from Mesopo- 

 tamia, Turke- 

 stan and E. 

 Persia to 

 Afghanistan and 

 Baluchistan ; 

 in winter to 

 N. India. 



t*305. Falco biarmicus biarmicus Temm., PI. Col. S. Africa, N. to 



Hvr. 55, pi. 324 (1825). [Kaffirland and Angola and 



Cape Colony.] E. Africa. 

 South African Lanner. 



Size similar ; wing (^ 304, $ 355 mm. ; fore- 

 head whitish ; fore part of crown black ; 

 rest of crown and nape brick-red, with 



