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head and neck, throat and chest white, 
with a few black shaft-lines on latter ; 
below white, thickly barred with black. 
*298a. Falco chicquera ruficollis Swains., Bds. Tropical Africa, 
W. Afr., 1., p. 107, pl. 2 (1837). [Senegal.] N. to the 
African Rufous-necked Falcon. Gambia and 
Egypt. Sudan. 
size smaller; wing ¢ 192-195 mm. ; 
darker, more barred above, especially on 
back and scapulars, and with bars on breast 
more defined and rather closer together. 
298b. Falco chicquera horsbrughit Gunning & South Africa, 
298c. 
B. Size similar ; 
f 
+*299, 
Roberts, Ann. Trans. Mus., iu., p. 10 
(1911). [Pretoria, type in Transv. Mus.] 
Larger; wing ¢ 218, 9 240 mm.; above 
paler bluish grey. 
Falco chicquera pyrrhogaster Reichenow, 
Orn. M.B., xxi., p. 25 (1915). [Bosum, 
E. Cameroon. | 
Cameroon Hobby. 
Wing 150, tail 146 mm.; above like F. 
chiquera ruficollis, below like F. fasciinucha 
[not seen, probably immature (?)]. 
length 11-13 in. (Sub. gen. 
Tinnunculus Vieill.). 
Falco columbarius columbarius Linn., S.N., 
i., p. 90 (1758). [“ America,’ ex Catesby = 
Carolina. | 
Pigeon Hawk. 
Transvaal and 
Cape Colony. 
Cameroon. 
Eastern 
N. America ; 
in winter S. to 
W. Indies and 
Northern 
S. America. 
1] formerly regarded this as a synonym of ruficollis, from a drawing made and 
sent to me by the late Lt. Finch-Davies from the type, an immature bird, and 
examined by Dr. Hartert and myself, but as the S. African race differs, horsbrught 
is the name that must be adopted. 
