FALCONID^. 13 



was doubtless subsequent to the date of the no be above recorded. 

 This species has not as yet been figured. In the English names 

 which I have appended to this and the preceding species, I have 

 aimed at indicating their near affinity to the two more northern 

 Falcons with which they are respectively most closely allied. — 

 Ed.J 



18. Falco cervicaliS, LicM. South-African Lanneroid Palcon. 



Falco biarmious, Temminck'a PI. Col. pi. 324. 



„ „ Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 2. 



„ „ Anderason, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 3. 



,, „ Layard's Oat. No. 27. 



„ „ Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 390. 



Falco cervicalis, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 172. 



This Falcon (called in Damara Land "Onikothe") is to 

 be met vs^ith from the Cape Colony in the south to the 

 Okavango Eiver in the north, and as far eastward as 

 Lake Ngami; it is particularly numerous in Little 

 Namaqua Land and also in the neighbourhood of the 

 Okavango, and it is occasionally seen along the sea- 

 coast. It preys chiefly on birds and has a very powerful 

 and sweeping flight. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



The female bird, of which the measurements are here 

 given, flew fiercely above me, and so near that I felt the 

 air driven by its wings against my face. 



[The tail in this female specimen, which formed part of the 



