302g. 
302h. 
302i. 
201 
Falco peregrinus vadama Hartlaub, Orn. 
Beitr. Faune Madag., p. 17 (1861). [Ex 
Verreaux MS.—Madagascar.| 
Madagascar Peregrine Falcon. 
Wing 3 272 mm.; above darker than 
F. p. minor; head, mantle, and wings 
blackish ; chest and vent buffy white, and 
under wing-coverts white ; rest of under 
parts closely barred with black. 
Falco peregrinus peregrinator Sund., Phy- 
siogr. Sallskapets Tidsskr. Lund. i., p. 177, 
pl. 4 (1837). [Indian Ocean, off Nicobar 
Is.) 
Indian Peregrine Falcon. 
Smaller than F. p. peregrinus ; wing 9 305- 
330 mm. ; below tawny ferruginous, paler 
on throat and sides of neck; marked on 
flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts with 
a few spots and cross bars of black. 
Falco peregrinus macropus Swains., Anim. 
in Menag., p. 341 (Jan. 1838). [Tasmania.] 
’ [ =F. p. melanogenys Gould.] 
Black-cheeked Falcon. 
Wing 3 295-304, 2 335-342 mm.; ¢ head 
and nape deep black, including sides of 
face, cheeks and ear-coverts ; interscapu- 
lary region blackish, with obsolete bars 
of bluish grey ; rest of upper parts bluish 
ashy, barred with black; tail with broad 
subterminal and 11 other bars of black ; 
throat and chest deep creamy buff, latter 
with a few black shaft stripes; below 
buffy white closely and narrowly barred 
with black, the sides and thighs tinged with 
grey; 2 more ferruginous below and with 
the cross bars more irregular. 
Madagascar, 
Comoro Is. 
Indian 
Peninsula ; 
Ceylon ; 
>. China. 
E. and W. 
Australia, 
Tasmania, 
New Caledonia. 
