189 



below chestnut, immaculate in old birds ; 

 in younger birds heavily marked with drop- 

 shaped spots of black. 



*292a. Falco severus papuanus A. B. Meyer & 

 Wiglesw., Abhandl. Ber. Mus. Dresden, 

 1892-3, No. 3, p. 6 ( 1893) . [Huon Gulf, N. 

 New Guinea.] 

 New Guinea Hobby. 



Wing 3 215-220, ? 228-240 mm. ; chest 

 usually with black shaft-stripes ; above 

 darker,; tail nearly black ; below darker 

 chestnut ; quills and tail below obsoletely 

 banded with pale rufous, or sometimes 

 unbanded. 



Borneo, Celebes, 

 Ceram, 

 Halmahera'-, 

 New Guinea, 

 Salawatty, 

 New Britain ; 

 Solomon Is. (?) 



*292b. Falco severus indicus A. B. Meyer and 



Wiglesw. Bds. Celebes, i., p. 84 (1897). Indian Penin. 



[Calcutta.] Assam ; 



Central Indian Hobby. cas. Ceylon. 



Wing ? 242 mm. ; above paler ; wings and 

 tail browner slaty ; inner webs always 

 strongly barred below with pale cinnamon ; 

 chestnut of lower parts paler, without 

 black markings in adults. 



*293, Falco longipennis 

 Anim. in Menag., 

 {Tasmania]. [=F. 

 Little Falcon. 



longipennis Swains., 

 p. 341 (Jan., 1838). 

 lunulatus Lath.] 



East Australia 

 Tasmania. 



Wing (J 245, ? 265 mm. ; above slaty' blue 

 darker on head and Kghter on rump ; 

 primaries and tail barred on inner webs 

 with rufous ; hind neck tinged with rufous, 



^ F. severus religiosus Sharpe (Cat. Bds. Br. Mus., i., p. 397, 1874, Ceram), 

 from Ceram and Halmahera, is evidently a melanism of this form. It is a more 

 sooty bird, black below with remains of rufous edgings, instead of chestnut. 



