+290. 
20%. 
292. 
188 
Falco eleonore Gené, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 
105. [Sardinia.] 
Eleonora’s Falcon. 
Wing ¢ 315-325, 2 326-338 mm. ; sexes 
dissimilar ; $ general colour blackish slate, 
browner on upper parts ; outer tail-feathers 
slightly barred with blackish ; below with 
a trace of rufous, but the thighs dark slate ; 
9 dark slate brown above, tail barred with 
rufous and blackish; hind cheeks and 
throat deep buff, with a conspicuous black 
moustachial stripe ; breast buffish, becom- 
ing rufous on abdomen, striped with black ; 
thighs deep chestnut. 
Falco concolor Temm. PI. Col., livr. 56, text 
(not plate 330), (1825). ["‘ Senegal, Cotes 
de Barbarie, Egypt, Arabia—typ. loc. sugg. : 
Arabia.| [f. eleonore schistaceus Erlang., 
a synonym ?] 
Uniform Falcon. 
Smaller; wing 5 264, 2 284 mm.; sexes 
similar ; uniform leaden grey with black 
shaft-stripes to the feathers; primaries 
and tail with whitish bands on inner webs ; 
cere, orbits and feet bright yellow; bill 
bluish. 
Falco severus severus Horsf., Trans. Linn. 
Soc., xill., p. 135 (1822). [ Java.) 
Indian Hobby. 
Wing $215, 2230 mm. ; above slaty black ; 
head, cheeks and ear-coverts deep black ; 
upper tail-coverts and tail slate, barred 
with black; throat and sides of neck 
creamy white, washed with ferruginous ; 
2 See Swann, ‘‘ Oologists’ Record,’”’ 1921, Pp. 53; 
Islands of 
Mediterranean ; 
E., Canaries ; 
N.Africa, Algeria 
to Marocco ; 
S. Spain (?)? 
in winter S. to 
Madagascar. 
E. Africa (coast 
from Red Sea to 
Madagascar) : 
Arabian Coast ; 
Muscat. 
Burma, Malay 
Peninsula, 
French 
Indo-China ; 
Sunda Is, ; 
Philippine Is. 
