Falco Bm'baruft in India. 19 



tire outer webs towards the tips, pure white. The two central 

 tail feathers unicolorous with the hack, the next on either side 

 similar, but albescent at the ti])^ and with an obscure dark 

 subterminal band ; the other lateral feathers broadly tipped on 

 both webs with white, which tii)})ing is succeeded by a broad 

 very dark hair-brown transverse band, which gradually pales 

 into the dull earthy brown of the whole basal portion of the 

 feather. The external feather of all has a very narrow white 

 marg-in to the outer web, and some more white on this latter 

 quite at the base of the feather. The bill at present appears 

 a sort of reddish brown ; legs and feet, pale yellow. It is impossi- 

 ble to guess what the original color may have been. 



A. O. H. 



larknts in iiiMa. 



The occurrence of this species, heretofore believed to be con- 

 fined to the Southern Mediterranean littoral, in India, is a matter 

 of much interest ; and as it must now be included in the Indian 

 Avifauna, the following abstract of its synonymy will be useful to 

 Indian Ornithologists : 



MtQ ^nUxm, f inn. ^t ^nUxi idmx. 



Accipiter Falco tunetanus Briss Om I, p. 343, (1763) 

 Falco Barbaviis Linn Syst Nat p. 125, (1766) 

 Gmel „ „ p. 272, (1789) 



Lath Ind Orn p. 33, (1790) 



Syn I, p. 72, (1781) 



Gen Hist B I, p. 82 B, (1829) 

 „ Alphanet Schl Tr. de Faiiconnerie 



„ Punicus Levaill Jun Exp. Sci d'Algerie. 



Gennaja Barbaras Bonap Cat Ois d'Eiir. et de I'Alg. 

 Barbary Falcon Gentl. Recre p. 208, (1677) 



Falco Pelegrinoides Temm PL Col. 479. 



All the synonymes but the last, I quote from Mr. Alfred 

 Newton, as given by Mr. Salvin (/(5^>, 1859, p. 188). As to 

 the identity of this species with Temminck's Pelegrinoides, no 

 possible doubt exists in my mind. His description, which I 

 transcribe, agrees in the minutest particulars with both my birds. 

 He says " the forehead presents a mixture of rufous and dull 

 white. This part of the head is encircled by a black" (dark slaty 

 in mine,) ." horse-shoe-shaped band, of which the lateral branches 



