188 



t290. Falco eleonorcB Gen6, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 

 105. [Sardinia.'] 

 Eleonora's Falcon. 



sexes 



Wing <? 315-325, ? 326-338 mm. . 

 dissimilar ; $ general colour blackish slate, 

 browner on upper parts ; outer tail-feathers 

 slightly barred with blackish ; below with 

 a trace of rufous, but the thighs dark slate ; 

 ? dark slate brown above, tail barred with 

 rufous and blackish ; hind cheeks and 

 throat deep buff, with a conspicuous black 

 moustachial stripe ; breast buiifish, becom- 

 ing rufous on abdomen, striped with black ; 

 thighs deep chestnut. 



Islands of 

 Mediterranean ; 

 E. Canaries ; 

 N.Africa,Algeria 

 to Marocco ; 

 S. Spain (?)!■ 

 in winter S. to 

 Madagascar. 



291. Falco concolor Temm. PI. Col., hvr. 56, text 

 (not plate 330), (1825). [" Senegal, Cotes 

 de Barbdrie, Egypt, Arabia — ^typ. loc. sugg. : 

 Arabia.] [F. eleonoree schistaceus Erlang., 

 a sjnionym ?] 

 Uniform Falcon. 



Smaller ; wing ^ 264, ? 284 mm. ; sexes 

 similar ; uniform leaden grey with black 

 shaft-stripes to the feathers ; primaries 

 and tail with whitish bands on inner webs ; 

 cere, orbits and feet bright yellow ; bill 

 bluish. 



E. Africa (coast 

 from Red Sea to 

 Madagascar) : 

 Arabian Coast ; 

 Muscat. 



292. Falco severus severus Horsf., Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, xiii., p. 135 (1822). [Java.] 

 Indian Hobby. 



Wing <S 215, ? 230 mm. ; above slaty black ; 

 head, cheeks and ear-coverts deep black ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail slate, barred 

 with black ; throat and sides of neck 

 creamy white, washed with ferruginous ; 



Burma, Malay 

 Peninsula, 

 French 

 Indo-China ; 

 Sunda Is, ; 

 Philippine Is. 



i See Swann, "Oologists' Record," 1921, p. 53, 



