193 



head and neck, throat and chest white, 

 with a few black shaft-Unes on latter ; 

 below white, thickly barred with black. 



*298a. Falco chicquefa ruficollis Swains., Bds. 

 W. Afr., i., p. 107, pi. 2 (1837). [Senegal] 

 African Rufous-necked Falcon. 



mm. 



Size smaller ; wing $ 192-195 

 darker, more barred above, especially on 

 back and scapulars, and with bars on breast 

 more defined and rather closer together. 



Tropical Africa, 

 N. to the 

 Gambia and 

 Egypt. Sudan. 



298b. Falco chicquera horsbrughi^ Gunning & South Africa, 

 Roberts, Ann. Trans. Mus., iii., p. 110 Transvaal and 

 (1911). [Pretoria, type in Transv. Mus.] Cape Colony. 



Larger ; wing ^ 218, ? 240 mm. ; 

 paler bluish grey. 



above 



298c. Falco chicquera pyrrhogaster Reichenow, Cameroon. 

 Orn. M.B., xxiii., p. 25 (1915). [Bosum, 

 E. Cameroon.'] 

 Cameroon Hobby. 



Wing 150, tail 146 mm. ; above like F. 

 chiquer a ruficollis, below like F . fasciinucha 

 [not seen, probably immature (?)]. 



B. Size similar; length 11-13 in. (Sub. gen. 

 Tinnunculus Vieill.). 



Falco columbarius columbarius Linn., S.N., 

 i., p. 90 (1758). ["America," ex Catesby = 

 Carolina.] 

 Pigeon Hawk. 



t*299. Falco columbarius columbarius Linn., S.N., Eastern 



N. America ; 

 in winter S. to 

 W. Indies and 

 Northern 

 S. America. 



* I formerly regarded this as a synonym of ruficollis, from a drawing made and 

 sent to me by the late Lt. Finch-Davies from the type, an immature bird, and 

 examined by Dr. Hartert and myself, but as the S. African race differs, horsbrughi 

 is the name that must be adopted. 



