68 FALCONID^. 



and ear-coverts strongly tinged with rufous ; throat whitish ; rest of 

 under surface earthy buff, with central dark brown streaks to the feathers 

 inclining to bars on the vent and under tail-ooverts. Under wing- 

 coverts brown, spotted and barred with clear buff. Cere pale sea 

 green; bill pale bluish-green, blackish on the culmen and tip; feet 

 bright yellow ; iris dark brown. 



Length. — 15-5 to 16 inches, wing 11-87 to 12, tail 6 to 6-6, -tarsus 

 1-9. 



Adult Male. — Above bluish grey, the feathers with pale fulvescent mar- 

 gins, and having indistinct bars of darker grey ; the lower back, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts paler and clearer blue grey, transversely barred 

 with dark grey, the bars somewhat irregular and arrow-shaped on the 

 upper tail-coverts. Wing-coverts ooncolorous with the back, the greater 

 series rather lighter grey. Quills brown, externally shaded with grey ; the 

 secondaries margined and broadly tipped with buffy white, and barred 

 across with darker grey, the bars very distinct on the lower surface of 

 the wing and especially numerous on the primaries. Tail grey, tipped 

 with fulvous and crossed with nine or ten bars of darker grey, the light 

 grey interspaces sometimes tinged with rufous, the lower surface 

 of the tail whitish, the bars very distinct. Head and hind neck clear 

 rufous, the crown more or less inclined to greyish black, of which colour 

 many of the feathers are composed, having only a slight margin of 

 rufous. A rufous half collar round the back of the neck, mottled 

 somewhat with slaty. Sides of the face buffy white, tinged with 

 rufous ; the ear-coverts streaked with brown, collecting on the 

 cheeks and forming a distinct moustache. Throat pure white ; chest also 

 white, with a few narrow central streaks of brown ; remainder of under 

 surface whitish, slightly tinged with buff and numerously marked with 

 arrowhead spots of brown in the centre of the body, and barred on the 

 sides of the breast, flanks, and under wing-coverts with the same colour. 

 The bars on the thighs and under tail-coverts narrower than on the 

 greater series of the under wing-coverts. Cere, gape, orbits and 

 feet bright yellow ; bill bluish, blackish at the tip ; iris deep brown. 



Length. — 17"25 inches, wing 13, tail 7'25, tarsus 1"75. 



Mah. — The Punjab, Beloochistan and Persia, N. W. Provinces, 

 Nepaul, N. B. Africa, Mesopotamia, Central Asia. It is said to breed in 

 Cashmere. A winter visitant. Not uncommon from November to 

 February in Sind. 



Falco barbarus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 125; Salvin, Ibis, 1859; 

 Eeugl. Orn. Afrik i, p. 21; Hume, Str. F., i. p. 19; Saunders, P. 

 Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 356; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus., p. 386; Murray, 

 Zool, 8fc., Sind, p. 107; Falco pelegrinoides, Tem.pl. col. 479; Gray, 

 Gen.B. i, page 19. — The Baebaky Falcon. 



The forehead presents a mixture of rufous and dull white. This 

 part of the head is encircled by a black (or dark slaty) horse-shoe 

 shaped band, of which the lateral branches pass over the eyes, their 



