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black shaft stripes ; moustachial stripe, 

 feathers round eye and band down side 

 of neck black ; above dark brown, barred, 

 except on interscapulary region, with blue- 

 grey, inclining to fulvous on scapulars and 

 secondaries and more regular and paler 

 grey on rump ; tail regularly barred \\ith 

 fulvous grey and blackish brown ; below 

 vinous bufftsh, warmer on breast, streaked 

 on chest and slightly spotted on sides with 

 blackish in most birds, but nearly un- 

 spotted in oldest examples. 



305a. Falco biarmicus tanypterus Schleg., Ab- 

 handl. Geb. Zool. & Vergl. Anat., heft iii., 

 pp. 8, 16, pi. xii., xiii. (1844). [Nubia.] 

 Nubian Lanner. 



SHghtly larger ; wing S 313-325, ? 355-373 

 mm. ; above darker and more uniform ; 

 nape less rufous ; slightly more spotted 

 below, but with the ground colour more 

 huffish white, and the chest as a rule free 

 from markings. 



Nubia, 

 Egyptian Sudan 



Egypt. 



Arabia, 

 Palestine. 



*305b. Falco biarmicus abyssinicus Neum., J.f.C, 

 1904, p. 369. [Shoa ; type in Tring Mus.] 

 Abyssinian Lanner. 



Very shghtly larger ; wing 3 326-344, 

 $ 362-375 mm. ; lower parts more heavily 

 spotted with black. 



Abyssinia, 

 Shoa, Gallaland 

 and Sudan, 

 S. to Uganda, 

 \V. to Hausa- 

 land and Togo- 

 land ; Aden. 



*305c. Falco biarmicus erlangeri Kleinschm., 

 Aquila, viii., p. 33 (1901). [Tunis and 

 Tangier : restr. type loc. Tunis ; type in 

 Kleinschmidt's coll.] 

 North African Lanner. 



N. Africa (Atlas 

 district from 

 Tunisia to 

 \V. Marocco). 



