304a. 
304b. 
+*305. 
203 
white; below pale buffy fawn, breast 
unspotted, but sides with a few blackish 
spots, becoming bars on under wing and 
tail-coverts. Younger birds dark brown 
above, with rufous margins; hind neck 
creamy white, tinged with rufous ; below 
creamy white, breast and flanks streaked 
with brown, more broadly on the latter. 
Falco pelegrinoides arabicus Erlanger, J.f.O. 
1903, p. 293. [Lahadsch, type in Berlin 
Mus. | 
Arabian Falcon. 
Said to be darker above. 
Falco pelegrinoides babylonicus Sclater, 
Ibis, 1861, p. 218, pl. vil. [Oudh, type in 
Norwich Mus. ] 
Red-capped Falcon. 
Larger; wing ¢ 304, 2 329 mm.; above 
lighter bluish grey; fore part of crown 
more rufous ; hind part of crown greyish 
black ; nape and hind neck clear rufous, 
with darker centres to many of the feathers; 
below buffy white, with arrow-head brown 
spots on centre of belly and bars on the 
sides; throat and chest unspotted. 
Falco biarmicus biarmicus Temm., Pl. Col. 
livr. 55, pl. 324 (1825). [Kaffivland and 
Cape Colony. | 
South African Lanner. 
Size similar ; wing ¢ 304, 9355 mm. ; fore- 
head whitish ; fore part of crown black ; 
rest of crown and nape brick-red, with 
S.W. Arabia, 
Erythrea, 
Somaliland ; 
cas. Sudan (?). 
W. and C. Asia, 
from Mesopo- 
tamia, Turke- 
stan and E. 
Persia to 
Afghanistan and 
Baluchistan ; 
in winter to 
N. India. 
S. Africa, N. to 
Angola and 
E. Africa. 
