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RUFOUS-NECKED FALCON. 
Falco rtificottin , Swains. 
PLATE II. 
Body above, dark-cinereous ; beneath, white, and both banded 
with narrow black lines ; head and neck above, rufous ; ears 
with a semi-circle of black *, beneath the eye a black stripe i 
throat and breast cream-coloured white, without bands. 
Le Chicqucra? Le VaUlant , Ois. d'Af i. PI. 30. 
This is one of the smallest and most elegant Fal- 
cons yet known ; we suspect it is also rare, since 
only one specimen has been received in the Senegal 
collections, and we have not met with it in any of 
our public museums. It has a general resemblance 
to the Chicquera of Le Vaillant, but that has no 
semicircle of black half round the ear, or the black 
stripe beneath the eye ; there are also a few other 
differences. Le Vaillant expressly tells us, also, 
that his bird was sent from Bengal ; and another 
author asserts that the Chicquera is found both in 
Java and Pondichery. These localities are so vastly 
remote from Senegal, that we cannot, so long as 
there is any difference in plumage, suppose that the 
same species inhabits regions so wide asunder. 
