302g. 
302h. 
3021. 
201 
Falco peregrinus vadama Hartlaub, Orn. 
Madagascar, 
Beitr. Faune Madag., p. 17 (1861). [Ex Comoro Is. 
Verreaux MS.—Madagascar.| 
Madagascar Peregrine Falcon. 
Wing 3$ 272 mm.; above darker than 
F. p. minor; head, mantle, and wings 
blackish ; chest and vent buffy white, and 
under wing-coverts white; rest of under 
parts closely barred with black. 
Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sund., Phy- 
siogr. Sallskapets Tidsskr. Lund. 1., p. 177, 
pl. 4 (1837). [Indian Ocean, off Nicobar 
ssl 
Indian Peregrine Falcon. 
Smaller than Ff’. p. peregrinus ; wing 2 305- 
330 mm. ; below tawny ferruginous, paler 
on throat and sides of neck; marked on 
flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts with 
a few spots and cross bars of black. 
Falco peregrinus macropus Swains., Anim. 
in Menag., p. 341 (Jan. 1838). [Tasmania.] 
[ =F. p. melanogenys Gould. } 
Black-cheeked Falcon. 
Wing ¢ 295-304, 2 335-342 mm.; 3 head 
and nape deep black, including sides of 
face, cheeks and ear-coverts ; interscapu- 
lary region blackish, with obsolete bars 
of bluish grey ; rest of upper parts bluish 
ashy, barred with black ; tail with broad 
subterminal and 11 other bars of black ; 
throat and chest deep creamy buff, latter 
with a few black shaft stripes; below 
buffy white closely and narrowly barred 
with black, the sides and thighs tinged with 
grey ; 2 more ferruginous below and with 
the cross bars more irregular. 
Indian 
Peninsula ; 
Ceylon ; 
5. China: 
Ewand VW. 
Australia, 
Tasmania, 
New Caledonia 
