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FALCO FELDEGGI. 



(LANNER.) 



Falco feldeggii, Schl. Abh. Geb. Zool. iii. p. 3, taf. 10, 11 (1841). 



Falco joeregrinoides, Schlegel, in Susemihl's Vog. Eur. 2nd ed. p. 39 (1841, partim). 



Falco lanarius, Schl. Eev. Crit. p. 2 (1844, nee Linn.). 



Falco ruiens, Thien. Rhea, i. p. 72 (1846). 



Le Lanier hagard, Schl. & Verst. Traite Fauc. pi. 10 (1853). 



Gennaia lanarius, Bp. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536. 



Falco biarmicus, Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 44 (nee Temm.). 



Falco tanypterus, Konig-Warth. Ibis, I860, p. 122 (nee Schl.). 



Falco lanarius groecus, Schl. Mus. Bays-Bas, Falcones, p. 15 (1862). 



Falco peregrinoides, Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 2. figs. 1, 2 (1871, nee Smith). 



Figaro? notabiles. 



Schlegel, I. c; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 2. fig. 2, taf. 5. figs. 1, 2; Salvin & Brod. Falc. Brit. 

 Isl. pis. 18, 19 ; Schlegel & Susemihl, Vog. Eur. pi. 8 a, ] pi. 9. fig. 1. 



Ad. fronte albida : pileo et nucha pallide rufescentibus nigro-fusco striolatis, nucha ima eodera colore notata : 

 capitis lateribus et gula albis : stria, malari inconspicua, regione circumoculari ct stria per oculos ad 

 nucharn producta nigro-fuscis : dorso et tcetricibus alarum sordide schistaceo-fuscis cervino-cinereo 

 fasciatis et terminatis, uropygio et supracaudalibus magis cinereo-schistaceis Cffiruleo-cinereo trans- 

 fasciatis : rectrieibus pallide einereo-fuscis cinereo et cervino-cinereo fasciatis et albido apicatis : pectore 

 et corpore subtus albis cervino tinctis et nigro-fusco guttatis : rostro corneo, cerft et pedibus flavis : 

 iride fusca. 



Juv. pileo pallidiore et magis nigro-fusco notato striatoque : corpore supra sordide fusco, plumis baud fasciatis 

 sed pallidiore marginatis : cauda sordide cinereo-fusca, albido terminate, rectrieibus centralibus haud 

 fasciatis, sed lateralibus cervino-albido guttatis : gula et gutture albis : corpore reliquo subtus albo 

 conspicue fusco striato. 



Adult Female (Egypt). Forehead dull white; crown and nape pale creamy rufous finely striated with 

 blackish, the lower nape blotched with brown; region round the eye and an irregular stripe from 

 behind the eye to the nape deep brown ; moustache small and narrow ; fore part of the back and wing- 

 coverts dull slaty brown barred and tipped with buffy ash-grey, on the lower back and upper tail- 

 coverts becoming slaty ash barred with ashy blue; quills blackish, with an ashy tinge on the outer 

 webs, and on the inner webs barred with white; tail dull brown with an ashy tinge, closely banded with 

 ashy grey tinged with buff, and tipped with buffy white; chin and upper throat white; rest of the 

 underparts white with a buffy tinge, marked with drop-shaped blackish- brown spots, these being much 

 elongated on the breast; under wing-coverts barred and spotted with blackish brown; bill pale horn at 

 the base, deep horn at the tip; cere and legs yellow; iris brown. Total length about 18 inches, 

 culmen 125, wing 13 - 3, tail 7"2, tarsus 2'2. 



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