200 
*302d. Falco peregrinus cassini Sharpe, Ann. & 
302e. 
302f. 
Mag. N.H. (4), xi., p. 221 (1873). 
gellan Str. and Falkland Is.] 
Cassin’s Falcon. 
[Mag- 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 300-308, 9 340-355 mm. ; 
oldest dress: above, including head, 
bluish grey, barred and spotted with black ; 
rump paler, whitish grey ; tail barred with 
black and tipped white ; throat white with 
broad black moustachial patch; chest 
buffy white; below greyish white, finely 
barred with black. Immature: brownish 
black above, with paler edgings; below 
deep buff, with a strong reddish shade, 
heavily striped with black ; flank feathers 
black, barred with reddish buff. Interme- 
diate plumage as adult described by 
Sharpe. 
Falco peregrinus brooke: Sharpe, Ann. and 
Mag. N.H. (4) xi., p. 21 (1873). [Sardinia, 
type in Brit. Mus.] 
[ =F. punicus, auct.] 
Lesser Peregrine Falcon. 
Smaller than F. p. peregrinus and with 
more slender feet ; wing ¢ 280-300, 2 320- 
339 mm. ; less heavily marked below and 
with the ground colour much more ruddy 
buff. 
Falco peregrinus minor Schleg., Abh. Geb. 
Zool. & Vergl. Anat., heft iii., p. 20 (1844). 
(Mins. of Cape of Good Hope.) 
S. African Peregrine Falcon. 
Slightly smaller; wing ¢ 270, 9 280-298 
mm. ; dullerin colour than F. p. peregrinus 
and with the dark bars on abdomen closer 
together. 
Andes. from 
Ecuador S. to 
Chile and 
Falkland 
Islands. 
Mediterranean 
countries and 
islands, from 
S. Spain to 
Greece, and 
Asia Minor, 
N. Marocco. 
Africa, from 
Cape Colony to 
Blue Nile and 
Socotra on E., 
and on W. to 
Angola and 
Gold Coast. 
