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302g. Falco peregrinus radama Hartlaub, Orn. Madagascar, 

 Beitr. Faune Madag., p. 17 (1861). [Ex Comoro Is. 

 Verreaux MS. — Madagascar.] 

 Madagascar Peregrine Falcon. 



Wing (? 272 mm. ; above darker than 

 F. p. minor ; head, mantle, and wings 

 blackish ; chest and vent buffy white, and 

 imder wing-coverts white ; rest of under 

 parts closely barred with black. 



302h. Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sund., Phy- Indian 



siogr. Sallskapets Tidsskr. Lund, i., p. 177, Peninsula 



pi. 4 (1837). [Indian Ocean, off Nicobar Ceylon ; 



Is.] S. China. 

 Indian Peregrine Falcon. 



Smaller than F. p. peregrinus ; wing ?305- 

 330 mm. ; below tawny ferruginous, paler 

 on throat and sides of neck; marked on 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts with 

 a few spots and cross bars of black. 



302i. Falco peregrinus macropus Swains., Anim. E. and W. 



inMenag., p. 341 (Jan. 1838). [Tasmania.] Australia, 



[=F. p. melanogenys Gould.] Tasmania, 



I31ack-cheeked Falcon. New Caledonia 



Wing S 295-304, ? 335-342 mm. ; $ head 

 and nape deep black, including sides of 

 face, cheeks and ear-coverts ; interscapu- 

 lary region blackish, with obsolete bars 

 of bluish grey ; rest of upper parts bluish 

 ashy, barred with black ; tail with broad 

 subterminal and 1 1 other bars of black ; 

 throat and chest deep creamy buff, latter 

 with a few black shaft stripes ; below 

 buffy white closely and narrowly barred 

 with black, the sides and thighs tinged with 

 grey ; ? more ferruginous below and with 

 the cross bars more irregular. 



