*292a. 
*292b. 
*293. 
189 
below chestnut, immaculate in old birds ; 
in younger birds heavily marked with drop- 
shaped spots of black. 
Falco severus papuanus A. B. Meyer & 
Wiglesw., Abhandl. Ber. Mus. Dresden, 
1892-3, No. 3, p. 6 (1893). [Huon Gulf, N. 
New Guinea.| 
New Guinea Hobby. 
Wing 3d 215-220, 2 228-240 mm. ; chest 
usually with black shaft-stripes; above 
darker ; tail nearly black; below darker 
chestnut ; quills and tail below obsoletely 
banded with pale rufous, or sometimes 
unbanded. 
Falco severus indicus A. B. Meyer and 
Wiglesw. Bds. Celebes, i., p. 84 (1897). 
(Calcutta. | 
Central Indian Hobby. 
Wing ° 242 mm. ; above paler ; wings and 
tail browner slaty; inner webs always 
strongly barred below with pale cinnamon ; 
chestnut of lower parts paler, without 
black markings in adults. 
Falco longipennis longipennis Swains., 
Anim. in Menag., p. 341 (Jan., 1838). 
[Tasmania]. [ =F. lunulatus Lath.] 
Little Falcon. 
Wing 3 245, 9 265 mm. ; above slaty blue 
darker on head and lighter on rump; 
primaries and tail barred on inner webs 
with rufous ; hind neck tinged with rufous, 
Borneo, Celebes, 
Ceram, 
Halmahera}, 
New Guinea, 
Salawatty, 
New Britain ; 
Solomon Is. (?) 
Indian Penin. ; 
Assam ; 
cas. Ceylon. 
East Australia ; 
Tasmania. 
1 F. severus religiosus Sharpe (Cat. Bds. Br. Mus., i., p. 397, 1874, Ceram), 
from Ceram and Halmahera, is evidently a melanism of this form. 
It is a more 
sooty bird, black below with remains of rufous edgings, instead of chestnut. 
