193 



head and neck, throat and chest white, 

 with a few black shaft-Unes on latter; 

 below white, thickly barred with black. 



*298a. Falco chicquera ruficollis Swains., Bds. 

 W. Afr., i., p. 107, pi. 2 (1837). [Senegal.] 

 African Rufous-necked Falcon. 



Size smaller ; wing ^ 192-195 mm. ; 

 darker, more barred above, especially on 

 back and scapulars, and with bars on breast 

 more defined and rather closer together. 



Tropical Africa, 

 N. to the 

 Gambia and 

 Egypt. Sudan. 



298b. Falco chicquera horsbrughi^ Gunning & 

 Roberts, Ann. Trans. Mus., iii., p. 110 

 (1911). [Pretoria, type in Transv. Mus.] 



Larger ; wing ^ 218, ? 240 mm. 

 paler bluish grey. 



above 



South Africa, 

 Transvaal and 

 Cape Colony. 



298c. Falco chicquera pyrrhogaster Reichenow, 

 Orn. M.B., xjdii., p. 25 (1915). [Bosum, 

 E. Cameroon.'] 

 Cameroon Hobby. 



Wing 150, tail 146 mm. ; above Uke F. 

 chiquera ruficollis, below like F . fasciinucha 

 [not seen, probably immature (?)]. 



B. Size similar; length 11-13 in. (Sub. gen. 

 Tinnunculus Vieill.). 



Cameroon. 



t*299. Falco columbarius columbarius Linn., S.N., 

 i., p. 90 (1758). \!' America," ex Catesby = 

 Carolina.] 

 Pigeon Hawk. 



Eastern 



N. America ; 



in winter S. to 



W. Indies and 



Northern 



S. America. 



1 1 formerly regarded this as a synonym of ruficollis, from a drawing made and 

 sent to me by the late Lt. Finch-Davies from the type, an immature bird, and 

 examined by Dr. Hartert and myself, but as the S. African race differs, horsbrughi 

 is the name that must be adopted. 



