204 



black shaft stripes ; moustachial stripe, 

 feathers round eye and band down side 

 of neck black ; above dark brown, barred, 

 except on interscapulary region, with blue- 

 grey, inclining to fulvous on scapulars and 

 secondaries and more regular and paler 

 grey on rump ; tail regularly barred with 

 fulvous grey and blacHsh brown ; below 

 vinous huffish, warmer on breast, streaked 

 on chest and slightly spotted on sides with 

 blackish in most birds, but nearly un- 

 spotted in oldest examples. 



305a. Falco biarmicus tanypterus Schleg., Ab- 

 handl. Geb. Zool. & Vergl. Anat., heft iii., 

 pp. 8, 16, pi. xii., xiii. (1844). iNMa.\ 

 Nubian Lanner. 



Slightly larger ; wing <? 313-325, ? 355-373 

 mm. ; above darker and more uniform ; 

 nape less rufous ; slightly more spotted 

 below, but with the ground colour more 

 huffish white, and the chest as a rule free 

 from markings. 



Nubia, 



Egyptian Sudan 

 Egypt, 

 Arabia, 

 Palestine. 



*305b. Ftdco biarmicus abyssinicus Neum., J.f.O., 

 1904, p. 369. [Shoa; type in Tring Mus.] 

 Abyssinian Lanner. 



Abyssinia, 

 Shoa, GaUaland 

 and Sudan, 

 S. to Uganda, 

 W. to Hausa- 



Very shghtly larger; wing <J 326-344, 



9 362-375 mm. ; lower parts more heavily land and Togo 



spotted with black. land ; Aden. 



*305c. Falco biarmicus erlangeri Kleinschm., 

 Aquila, viii., p. 33 (1901). iTunis and 

 Tangier : restr. type loc. Tunis ; type in 

 Kleinschmidt's coll.] 

 North African Lanner. 



N. Africa (Atlas 

 district from 

 Tunisia to 

 W. Marocco). 



