16 FALCONING. 



known, but Mr. Hume had reason to believe that it bred in the 

 Peshawar Valley and in Cashmere. 



Falco barbarus, Lin. 



12 b is. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 68. 

 THE BAKBARY FALCON. 



cT. Length, 14 ; wing, 10'8 ; tail, 5 ; tarsus, 1'6. 

 ?. Length, 15 '5 ; expanse, 36'4 ; wirg, 1T4; tail, 6 '4 ; tarsus, 

 1*8 ; bill from gape, I'l. 



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 striae 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 subbuteo, Lin. 



13. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 33 ; Butler, Aboo ; Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 443 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 

 p. 370 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 69 ; Hume's 

 Scrap Book, p. 85. 



THE HOBBY. 



<. Length, 1075 ; wing, 9 : 4 ; tail, 5'25. 

 ?. 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 -co verts 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- 



