305a. 
*305b. 
*305c. 
204 
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black shaft stripes; moustachial stripe, 
feathers round eye and band down side 
of neck black ; above dark brown, barred, 
except on interscapulary region, with blue- 
grey, inclining to fulvous on scapulars and 
secondaries and more regular and paler 
grey on rump; tail regularly barred with 
fulvous grey and blackish brown; below 
vinous buffish, warmer on breast, streaked 
on chest and slightly spotted on sides with 
blackish in most birds, but nearly un- 
spotted in oldest examples. 
Falco biarmicus tanypterus Schleg., Ab- 
handl. Geb. Zool. & Vergl. Anat., heft iii., 
pp. 8, 16, pl. xii., xiii. (1844). [Nudia.] 
Nubian Lanner. 
Slightly larger ; wing $ 313-325, 2 355-373 
mm.; above darker and more uniform ; 
nape less rufous; slightly more spotted 
below, but with the ground colour more 
buffish white, and the chest as a rule free 
from markings. 
Falco biarmicus abyssinicus Neum., J.f.0., 
1904, p. 369. [Shoa; type in Tring Mus.] 
Abyssinian Lanner. 
Very slightly larger; wing 3g 326-344, 
2 362-375 mm. ; lower parts more heavily 
spotted with black. 
Falco biarmicus erlangert Kleinschm., 
Aquila, vili., p. 33 (1901). [Tums and 
Tangier: restr. type loc. Tunis; type in 
Kleinschmidt’s coll.] 
North African Lanner. 
Nubia, 
Egyptian Sudan 
Egypt, 
Arabia, 
Palestine. 
Abyssinia, 
Shoa, Gallaland 
and Sudan, 
S. to Uganda, 
W. to Hausa- 
land and Togo- 
land; Aden. 
N. Africa (Atlas 
district from 
Tunisia to 
W. Marocco). 
