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RUFOUS-NECKED FALCON. 



Falco ruficolliS) SWAINS. 

 PLATE II. 



Body above, dark-cinereous ; beneath, white, and both banded 

 with narrow black lines ; head and neck above, rufous ; ears 

 with a semi-circle of black ; beneath the eye a black stripe ; 

 throat and breast cream-coloured white, without bands. 



Le Chicquera? Le Variant, Ois. d'Af. i. PI. 30. 



THIS is one of the smallest and most elegant Fal- 

 cons yet known; we suspect it is also rare, since 

 only one specimen has been received in the Senegal 

 collections, and we have not met with it in any of 

 our public museums. It has a general resemblance 

 to the Chicquera of Le Vaillant, but that has no 

 semicircle of black half round the ear. or the black 

 stripe beneath the eye ; there are also a few other 

 differences. Le Yaillant expressly tells us, also, 

 that his bird was sent from Bengal ; and another 

 author asserts that the Chicqu&ra, is found both in 

 Java and Pondichery. These localities are so vastly 

 remote from Senegal, that we cannot, so long as 

 there is any difference in plumage, suppose that the 

 same species inhabits regions so wide asunder. 



