206 
306a. Falco cherrug milvipes Hodgs., in Gray’s 
+307. 
Zool. Misc., p. 81 (1844) [nom nud.]; 
Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 240. [Umbaila, 
India.] 
Hodgson’s Saker. 
Size similar ; more barred above with pale 
rufous ; tail regularly and closely barred 
across centre feathers, not marked with 
oval spots. 
Falco jugger (Gray, in Hardw. Ill. Ind. 
Zool. u1., pl. 26 (1833-4). [India.] 
Laggar Falcon. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 317-330, 2 355-370 mm. ; 
feathers of crown dull rufous, with blackish 
brown centres; nape rather paler and 
mottled with black; above ashy brown, 
with pale fulvous margins; rump paler 
and clearer grey; tail ashy grey, tipped 
with white, outer feathers barred on inner 
web with whitish ashy; below white, 
with narrow black moustachial stripe ; 
lower breast with a few dark shaft-streaks ; 
flanks and thighs ashy brown. 
Falco altaicus (Menzb.), Orn. Turkestan, 
i., p. 272 (1892). [Altai and Minusinsk.] 
Altai Falcon. 
[F. lorenzi (Menzb.) a synonym. ] 
Wing $ 370 mm.; upper parts reddish 
brown washed with ash, under parts ochra- 
ceous with tear-shaped dark brown stripes ; 
tail brown, tipped with pale ochreous, the 
two middle feathers unbarred, rest with 
indistinct oval transverse reddish brown 
spots ; tarsus bare for more than half its 
length. (Dresser). [Not seen. 
High plateaux 
of Central Asia 
(Turkestan, 
Thibet, 
Mongolia) ; 
in winter S. to 
India, China, & 
Baluchistan. 
Indian Penin., 
Assam, 
E. Baluchistan, 
E. Afghanistan. 
Mountain 
ranges of 
Central Asia ; 
West Siberia. 
