128 



278. 



with narrow blackish shaft stripes ; above 

 earthy brown, all the feathers margined 

 with rufous ; quills with the white bars 

 on inner webs uniting on the margins ; 

 tail barred with rufous white on the inner 

 webs and with oval spots on the outer webs; 

 sides of face and throat white, with dusky 

 streaks on ear-coverts, but little indication 

 of a blackish moustache ; below whitish, 

 the chest slightly and breast and belly 

 thickly marked with blackish brown, more 

 in form of bars on flanks. Immature : 

 very little rufous on head ; moustache 

 stripe more apparent ; tail with the central 

 feathers generally unmarked ; below more 

 heavily and longitudinally marked. 

 Falco cherrug cherrug Gray, in Hardw. 

 Ind. Zool. ii., pi. 25 (1833-34). [India] 

 Saker Falcon. 



S.E. 



Europe 



(Balkan 



Penin. and 



S. Russia) ; 



Cyprus 



(cas.) 



C. Asia ; to 



N.W. India 



and China 



in winter. 



Size similar ; more barred above with pale 

 rufous ; tail regularly and closely barred 

 across centre feathers, not marked with 

 oval spots. 

 278a. Falco cherrug milvipes Hodgs., Gray's 

 Zool. Misc., p. 81 (1844) [nom. nud.] ; 

 Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 240. [Umballa, 

 India.] 

 Hodgson's Saker. 



High pla- 

 teaux of 

 Central 

 Asia : 

 Thibet ; 

 Mongolia ; 

 Nepal ; 

 Baluchis- 

 tan ; China ; 

 in winter S. 

 to India. 



