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SAKEll FALCON. 
Rapaces — DlURNJE. 
FALCONIDjE. 
Genus — Faloo. (Linnceus.) 
Sub-genus — Falco. ( Bechstein.) 
SAKER FALCON. 
Falco sacer, 
Falco sacer, Schlegel; Revue, p. z. 
Le sacre, Buffon; Nat. Hist, des Oiseaux, p. 24, pi. 14. 
Falco lanarins, Temminck; Man. i., p. 20. 
" " Pallas; Zoog., Ex. Syn. i., p. 330. 
Naumann; T. 23, f. 1, (fem. ad. mas jun.) 
" Gould; Birds of Europe, pi. 20, (ad. et jun.) 
" Schlegel u Susemihl; Tab. 7, (ad. et jun.) 
Le sacre, Schlegel et Verster; Traite de Fauconnerie, 
fig. ad. 
Falco laniarius, Of some German Naturalists. 
Specific Characters. — Moustache very narrow, hardly existing; tail long; 
feet bluish; median toe shorter than tarsus; spots white, ovoid and round 
on the tail. — Degland. 
Measurement. Male — Length one foot seven inches six lines. Wings 
thirteen inches and a half. Tail eight inches. Middle toe one inch eight 
lines. Female — Length one foot eight or nine inches. Wings fourteen 
inches and a half. Tail eight inches and three quarters. Middle toe one 
inch eleven lines to two inches. — Temminck and Schlegel. 
The Salter Falcon was confounded from the time of Temminck's 
first edition of the "Manuel d' Ornithologic," up to the publication of 
Schlegel's "Revue," in 1844, with the Falco lanarius of Linnaeus; and 
it is still named as such in collections. Some of the German naturalists 
add another i, making it as above, "laniarius" which they intend to be 
a mark of distinction from the next species. M. Schlegel has, however, 
