*298a. 
298b. 
298c. 
193 
head and neck, throat and chest white, 
with a few black shaft-lines on latter ; 
below white, thickly barred with black. 
Falco chicqueva ruficollis Swains., Bds. 
W. Afr.,i., p. 107, pl. 2 (1837). [Senegal.] 
African Rufous-necked Falcon. 
Size smaller; wing ¢ 192-195 mm.; 
darker, more barred above, especially on 
back and scapulars, and with bars on breast 
more defined and rather closer together. 
Falco chicquera horsbrughi+ Gunning & 
Roberts, Ann. Trans. Mus., ii., p. 110 
(1911). [Pretoria, type in Transv. Mus.] 
Larger; wing 3 218, 2 240 mm.; above 
paler bluish grey. 
Falco chicquera pyrrhogaster Reichenow, 
Orn. M.B., xxiil., p. 25 (1915). [Bosum, 
E. Cameroon.) 
Cameroon Hobby. 
Wing 150, tail 146 mm.; above like F. 
chiquera ruficollis, below like F. fasciinucha 
[not seen, probably immature (?)]. 
B. Size similar; length 11-13 in. (Sub. gen. 
+*299. 
Tinnunculus Vieill.). 
Falco columbarius columbarius Linn., S.N., 
1., p. 90 (1758). [“ America,” ex Catesby = 
Carolina. | 
Pigeon Hawk. 
Tropical Africa, 
N. to the 
Gambia and 
Egypt. Sudan. 
South Africa, 
Transvaal and 
Cape Colony. 
Cameroon. 
Eastern 
N. America ; 
in winter S. to 
W. Indies and 
Northern 
S. America. 
1 JT formerly regarded this as a synonym of ruficollis, from a drawing made and 
sent to me by the late Lt. Finch-Davies from the type, an immature bird, and 
examined by Dr. Hartert and myself, but as the S. African race differs, horsbrught 
is the name that must be adopted. 
