AVES FALCONID^. 



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Genus FALCO Linnseus. 



Type. 



Falco, Linn. S. N. Ed. X. i. p. 88 (1758); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus. i. p. 374 (1874); Sharpe, Hand- 

 list Bds. i. p. 273 (1899) F. sitbbitteo. 



Tmnunculus, Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. i. p. 39 (1807) F. columbarius. 



Hypofviorchis, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 967 . . . . F. snbbuteo. 



Aisaloii, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 40 (1829) . . . F. regitlus. 



Dendrofalco, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 3 (1840) . . F. snbbuteo. 



LitJiofalco, Blasius F. regitlus. 



Gennaia, Kaup, Isis, 1847, P- ^9 ^- J^igg^^^- 



Chkguem, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 535. F. chicquera. 



Turumtia, Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 9 F. cJiicquera. 



Rhync/io/alco, Ridgvvay, Pr. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



1873, p. 46 . Falcofemoralis, Ttmxmnck= F. fusco-cceritlescens. 

 Geographical Range. — The entire world except Oceania. 



Falco cassini Sharpe. 



Falco peregrinus, King (nee Tunst), Zool. Journ. iii. p. 425 (1827: Port 



Famine); Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Zool. I. p. 224 (1847); Phil. & 



Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 4 (1868); Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



XII, p. 136 (1889: Elizabeth Isl.); Albert, Contr. Estud. Av. Chil. 



II, p. 540 (1901). 

 Falco nigriceps, Cass. U. S. Astr. Exp. p. 176, pi. xiv (1855). 

 Falco cassini, Sharpe, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) XI, p. 223 (1873); id. Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. I, p. 384 (1874: Straits of Magellan); Gurney, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 300; id. List Diurn. B. Prey, p. 107 (1884); Burm. An. Mus. 



Nac. Buenos Aires, III, part x, p. 241 (1888: Straits of Magellan); 



Sharpe, Hand-list B. I, p. 274 (1899); Martens, Hamb. Magalh. 



Sammelr. p. 6 (1900: Straits of Magellan); Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. (2) xx, p. 614 (1900: Possession Bay, July). 



General description. 



Size. — Adult male. No. 7903 P. U. O. C. Coy Inlet, coast of Pata- 

 gonia, 22 November, 1896. J. B. Hatcher, collector. Or. No. 279. 

 Total length, 16.50 inches. 



Wing, 12.00 inches. 



Culmen, without cere, 0.75 inches; with cere, i.oo inches. 



