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Wing (J 362, $ 400 mm. ; general colour 

 blackish brown ; forehead and sides of 

 head and neck and under tail-coverts 

 mottled with white ; throat white, streaked 

 with brown ; breast slightly spotted with 

 buff ; tail barred. 



301a. Falco subniger minnie Math., Austr. Av. 

 Rec. ii., p. 127 (1915). [Queensland.} 

 Queensland Black Falcon. 



Without bars on tail. 



Queensland. 



E. Size moderate ; length 12-20 ins. (Sub. gen. 

 Rhynchodon Nitzsch). 



Europe,^ N. of 

 Mediterranean, 

 E. to tJrals ; in 

 winter to 

 Africa ; cas. 

 Greenland. 



f *302. Falco peregrinus peregrinus Tunst., Orn. 

 Brit., p. 1 (1771). [Ex Pennant— G^. 

 Britain.'] 

 Peregrine Falcon. 



Wing cJ 305-323, ? 350-370 mm. ; head, 

 hind neck and wing-coverts blackish, as 

 also cheeks, ear-coverts and short mous- 

 tachial stripe ; forehead and sides of neck 

 behind ear-coverts white ; rest of upper 

 parts bluish slate, barred or arrow-headed 

 with blackish ; tail broadly barred with 

 black and tipped with white ; below white, 

 with a blue tinge on breast, chest with 

 narrow black shaft stripes, breast spotted 

 and belly and under tail-coverts irregularly 

 barred with black ; bill bluish ; feet yellow. 

 Immature : brown above, with paler mar- 

 gins, including head ; tail barred with pale 

 rufous ; below longitudinally marked. 



I Kleinschmidt (Berajah, 1916, pp. 42, 46) has described two European forms 

 which I am unable to distinguish, viz. : F. peregrinus rhenanus from the Rhine 

 Valley, and F. peregrinus scandinavi cb from Sweden. His F. peregrinus leucogenys 

 (t. c, p. 54, 1917) is, I think, a synonym of oalidus, and his F. peregrinus germanicus 

 (i. c, p. 61, 1918) also seems inseparable from the typical form. 



