310 African Zoology. 



white transverse bands, tips of the feathers pure white. Bill 

 bluish black, base of lower mandible yellow ; cere, tarsi, and 

 toes, yellow ; claws black ; eyes sandy-grey. Length sixteen 

 inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Falco punctatus, Cuvier. Above deep rufous ; head and neck 

 variegated with longitudinal black stripes ; back and shoulders 

 with broad transverse black blotches : below white, breast with 

 longitudinal brown blotches,bellyandventwith roundish ,brown- 

 black, spots. Primary quill feathers black, inner vanes par- 

 tially crossed by white or rufous bars; secondaries rufous, 

 barred with black. Tail dark rufous with about six transverse 

 black bands, the tips of feathers rufous white. Bill blackish 

 blue, base of lower mandible yellow. Legs and toes greenish 

 yellow. Length of male eleven inches, of female twelve inches. 



Inhabits Isle of France and Madagascar. 



06s. In the specimens from Madagascar the black spots on the back 

 are generally smaller, the under parts are principally rufous, and the 

 tail blue-grey with black transverse bars. 



Falco subbuteo, Lath. Head and upper part of neck dark 

 blue-grey, rest of upper parts light blue-grey; the shafts of all 

 the feathers black ; over each eye a narrow rufous-white stripe, 

 and below each, a black crescent, the one extremity extending 

 under the eye, the other on a line with the base of lower mandi- 

 ble ; sides of neck, throat, breast, and belly, tawny-white ; the 

 two last freely variegated with longitudinal black blotches ; 

 vent, under tail coverts, and thighs, rufous. Outer vanes of 

 wing feathers hoary -blue, inner dull brown, crossed with white 

 bars towards quills, all very finely margined and tipt with dull 

 white. Tail slightly rounded, the two centre feathers blue- 

 grey, the rest blue-grey banded on the inner vanes with pale 

 rufous and tipt with tawny- white. Bill bluish, base of lower 

 mandible yellow ; cere, legs, and toes, yellow ; claws black. 

 Length thirteen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa and Europe. 



Le Hobereau, Buff. Hobby Falcon, Lath. Falco Cuvierii, 

 Smith, South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. p. 392. 



Falco Lythofalco, Lin. Upper parts of body and tail ashy- 

 blue, the centres of feathers with a longitudinal brown stripe ; 

 five irregular black transverse bands formed by isolated spots 

 upon the tail, the one towards the point very broad ; tips of the 

 feathers inclined to white. Throat white, rest of under parts 

 yellow-rufous with longitudinal brown spots ; bill blue; cere, 

 space round eyes, and feet, yellow. Quill feathers rayed on 

 inner vanes with white ; sometimes a rufous or yellow rufous 



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