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306a. Falco cherrug milvipes Hodgs., in Gray's 

 Zool. Misc., p. 81 (1844) [mm nud.] ; 

 Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 240. [Umballa, 

 India.] 

 Hodgson's Saker. 



Size similar ; more barred above with pale 

 rufous ; tail regularly and closely barred 

 across centre feathers, not marked with 

 oval spots. 



High plateaux 

 of Central Asia 

 (Turkestan, 

 Thibet, 

 Mongolia) ; 

 in winter S. to 

 India, China, & 

 Baluchistan. 



fSOV. Falco jugger (Gray, in Hardw. 111. Ind. 

 Zool. ii., pi. 26 (1833-4). [India.] 

 Laggar Falcon. 



Smaller ; wing <? 317-330, ? 355-370 mm. ; 

 feathers of crown dull rufous, with blackish 

 brown centres ; nape rather paler and 

 mottled with black ; above ashy brown, 

 with pale fulvous margins ; rump palei 

 and clearer grey ; tail ashy grey, tipped 

 with white, outer feathers barred on inner 

 web with whitish ashy ; below white, 

 with narrow black moustachial stripe ; 

 lower breast with a few dark shaft-streaks ; 

 flanks and thighs ashy brown. 



Indian Penin., 



Assam, 



E. Baluchistan, 



E. Afghanistan. 



308. Falco altaicus (Menzb.), Orn. Turkestan, 

 i., p. 272 (1892). [Altai and Minusinsk.] 

 Altai Falcon. 

 [F. lorenzi (Menzb.) a synonym.] 



Wing cJ 370 mm. ; upper parts reddish 

 brown washed with ash, under parts ochra- 

 ceous with tear-shaped dark brown stripes ; 

 tail brown, tipped with pale ochreous, the 

 two middle feathers unbarred, rest with 

 indistinct oval transverse reddish brown 

 spots ; tarsus bare for more than half its 

 length. (Dresser). [Not seen. 



Mountain 

 ranges of 

 Central Asia ; 

 West Siberia. 



