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302g. Falco peregrinus radama Hartlaub, Orn. 

 Beitr. Faune Madag., p. 17 (1861). [Ex 

 Verreaux MS. — Madagascar.] 

 Madagascar Peregrine Falcon. 



Wing (? 272 mm. ; above darker than 

 F. p. minor ; head, mantle, and wings 

 blackish ; chest and vent buffy white, and 

 under wing-coverts white ; rest of under 

 parts closely barred with black. 



Madagascar, 

 Comoro Is. 



302h. Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sund., Phy- 

 siogr. Sallskapets Tidsskr. Lund, i., p. 177, 

 pi. 4 (1837). [Indian Ocean, off Nicobar 

 Is.] 

 Indian Peregrine Falcon. 



Smaller than F. p. peregrinus ; wing $305- 

 330 mm. ; below tawny ferruginous, paler 

 on throat and sides of neck; marked on 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts with 

 a few spots and cross bars of black. 



Indian 

 Peninsula ; 

 Ceylon ; 

 S. China. 



302i. Falco peregrinus macropus Swains., Anim. E. and W. 



in Menag., p. 341 (Jan. 1838). [Tasmania.] Australia, 



[=F. p. melanogenys Gould.] Tasmania, 



Black-cheeked Falcon. New Caledonia 



Wing <? 295-304, ? 335-342 mm. ; <? head 

 and nape deep black, including sides of 

 face, cheeks and ear-coverts ; interscapu- 

 lary region blackish, with obsolete bars 

 of bluish grey ; rest of upper parts bluish 

 ashy, barred with black ; tail with broad 

 subterminal and 11 other bars of black; 

 throat and chest deep creamy buff, latter 

 with a few black shaft stripes ; below 

 buffy white closely and narrowly barred, 

 with black, the sides and thighs tinged with 

 grey ; 2 more ferruginous below and with 

 the cross bars more irregular. 



