FALGO. 303 



a cream-colour, very densely spotted, blotched, and smeared with deep 

 chocolate-brown in one specimen, yellowish brown or pale rufous in 

 the other two. They measure respectively : 1-71 by 1*31 ; 1'7 by 

 1-3 ; 1-68 by 1-3. 



3. Buenos Ayres, S. America. Crowley Bequest. 



Falco chicquera, Daud. 

 (Plate XV. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Falco chicquera, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 403 (1874) ; Legge, Birds 

 Ceylon, p. 110 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nesfs 8f Eggs 2nd.' Birds, iii. 

 p. 192 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 275 (1899). 



^Esalon chicquera, Blanf. Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, iii. p. 427 (1895). 



The eggs of the Turumti or Red-headed Merlin are precisely similar 

 to those of F. jugger in all respects except that of size. They 

 measure from 1*6 to 1'75 in length, and from 1-2 to 1'35 in 

 breadth. 



2. Hansi, Punjab, 8th March ( W. F. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt). 



2. Hansi, 15th March ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



7. Hansi, 15th-22nd March ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 28th March ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 29th March ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



4. Hansi, 12th-28th April ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 16th April (W.F.B.}. Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 18th April ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



3. Hansi, 21st April ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 26th April ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 14th May ( W. F. B.). Hume Coll. 



2. Gurgaon District, 28th Feb. Hume Coll. 



4. Gurgaon, 12th March. Hume Coll. 



3. Delhi, 20th March. Hume Coll. 

 3. Etawah, 26th Feb. Hume Coll. 

 3. Etawah, 1st April. Hume Coll. 

 2. Etawah, 9th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Sitapur, Oudh, 10th March Crowley Bequest. 



(Tristram Coll.). 



Falco eleonorae, Gene. 



Falco eleonorae, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Iii. fig. 8, a,b (1845-54) ; 

 Bree, Birds Fur. i. p. 44, pi. (1866) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. i. 

 p. 43, pi. (1875) ; Dresser, Birds Eur* vi. p. 103 (1873) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 404 (1874) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 275 (1899). 



Dendrofalco eleonorse, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 33. fig. 5 (1855-63). 



The eggs of the Eleonora Falcon resemble those of F. jugger and 

 F. chicquera and are of about the same size as the eggs of the 

 latter. They measure from 1-55 to 1-82 in length, and from 1-23 

 to 1*4 in breadth. 



2. Europe. Old Collection. 



:-5. Cyclades Is., Greece, Aug. Seebohm Coll. 



(T. Kriiper). 



