16 FALCONIN. 
known, but Mr. Hume had reason to believe that it bred in the 
Peshawar Valley and in Cashmere. 
Falco barbarus, Lin. 
12 bis—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 68. 
Tue BarBary FALcon. 
3. Length, 14 ; wing, 108; tail, 5 ; tarsus, 1°6. 
g. Length, 15°5; expanse, 36:4; wing, 11°4; tail, 6:4; tarsus, 
18 ; bill from gape, 1°1. 
The base of the beak is yellow, but the point is blue; the cere 
and feet beautiful yellow, and the orbital skin orange. 
The forehead presents a mixture of rufous and dull white. This 
part of the head is encircled by a black (or dark slaty) horse-shoe- 
shaped band, of which the lateral branches pass over the eyes, 
their extreme points joining in front of the eyes, the moustachial 
stripes which extend along the sides of the neck; the occiput 
and nape are covered by a rufous half-collar marked with three 
black spots, of which the centre one forms a band on the nape; 
the back and wings are a light bluish-grey, with large spots and 
irregular bars of bluish-black; the tail, which is a lighter grey 
than the back, is barred transversely with black bands, very nar- 
row towards the bases of the feathers, but widening gradually 
towards their ends, the tips of which are white; the chest is 
pure isabeline ; the flanks, vent, and abdomen of the same color, 
but the feathers bear very narrow longitudinal striz and little 
triangular black spots. 
This Falcon only occurs as a rare visitant, Sind being the only 
part of the region with which I am dealing, in which it has occur- 
red. 
Falco subhuteo, Zin. 
13.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 33; Butler, Aboo; Stray 
Feathers, Vol. II, p. 443; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 370; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 69; Hume’s 
Scrap Book, p. 89. 
THE Hospy. 
3. Length, 10°75; wing, 9°4; tail, 5°25. 
g. Length, 12°5 ; wing, 10-4; tail, 5°5. 
Cere and legs greenish-yellow. 
Adult: blackish-slaty above, rusty-white beneath; throat and 
neck unspotted ; breast and abdomen with dark brown streaks, 
narrow on the centre of the abdomen, wider on the flanks ; thigh- 
coverts and under tail-coverts pure ferruginous; tail dark slaty, 
with dark bands; frontal line and narrow stripe over the eye pale 
rusty-whitish ; cheek-stripe black, distinctly separated from the 
dark cheeks and ear-coverts; quills barred internally with light 
rufous. 
Young bird : dark brown above, the feathers edged with ferrugi- 
