310 African Zoology. 
white transverse bands, tips of the feathers pure white. Biull 
bluish black, base of lower mandible yellow; cere, tarsi, and 
toes, yellow; claws black; eyes sandy-grey. Length sixteen 
inches. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Falco punctatus, Cuvier. Above deep rufous ; head and neck 
variegated with longitudinal black stripes ; back and shoulders 
with broad transverse black blotches : below white, breast with 
longitudinal brown blotches,bellyandventwith roundish ,brown- 
black, spots. Primary quill feathers black, inner vanes par- 
tially crossed by white or rufous bars; secondaries rufous, 
barred with black. Tail dark rufous with about six transverse 
black bands, the tips of feathers rufous white. Bill blackish 
blue, base of lower mandible yellow. Legs and toes greenish 
yellow. Length of male eleven inches, of female twelve inches. 
Inhabits Isle of France and Madagascar. 
Obs. Inthe specimens from Madagascar the black spots on the back 
are generally smaller, the under parts are principally rufous, and the 
tail blue-grey with black transverse bars. 
Falco subbuteo, Lath. Head and upper part of neck dark 
blue-grey, rest of upper parts light blue-grey; the shafts of all 
the feathers black ; over each eye a narrow rufous-white stripe, 
and below each, a black crescent, the one extremity extending 
under the eye, the other ona line with the base of lower mandi- 
ble; sides of neck, throat, bréast, and belly, tawny-white ; the 
two last freely variegated with longitudinal black blotches ; 
vent, under tail coverts, and thighs, rufous. Outer vanes of 
wing feathers hoary-blue, inner dull brown, crossed with white 
bars towards quills, all very finely margined and tipt with dull 
white. Tail slightly rounded, the two centre feathers blue- 
erey, the rest blue-grey banded on the inner vanes with pale 
rufous and tipt with tawny-white. Bill bluish, base of lower 
mandible yellow; cere, legs, and toes, yellow; claws black. 
Length thirteen inches. 
Inhabits South Africa and Europe. 
Le Hobereau, Buff. Hobby Falcon, Lath. Falco Cuvierii, 
Smith, South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. p. 392. 
Falco Lythofaleo, Lin. Upper parts of body and tail ashy- 
blue, the centres of feathers with a longitudinal brown stripe ; 
five irregular black transverse bands formed by isolated spots 
upon the tail, the one towards the point very broad ; tips of the 
feathers inclined to white. Throat white, rest of under parts 
yellow-rufous with longitudinal brown spots; bill blue; cere, 
space round eyes, and feet, yellow. Quill feathers rayed on 
inner vanes with white ; sometimes a rufous or yellow rufous 
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