Order FALCONIFORMES 
No. 311. 
Family FALCONIDM, 
RHYNCHODON PEREGRINUS. 
BLACK-CHEEKED FALCON. 
(Plate 254.)* 
Palco PEREGRiNirs (Tumstall), Omith. Brit., p, 1, 1771 ; Great Britain. 
Falco macropus Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 341, Jan., 1838 ; Tasmania. 
Bird Hawk, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. I., p. 228, 1821 (N.S.W.). 
Falco peregrinus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 183, 1827 
(N.S.W.) ; Biggies, Om. Austr., pt. xx., 1868 (Q.). 
Falco macropus Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 341, Jan. 1838. 
Falco melanogenys Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. 42, Apl. 1838 (Tas.); id., Proc. 
Zooi. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 139, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. 8, 1848 ; Sturt, 
Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 14, 1849 (Central) ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 26, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 393 (Q.) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 385, 1874 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Accip., 
p. 48, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Gurney, Ibis 
1882, p. 302 ; id.. List Dium. Birds Prey, p. 107, 1884 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, 
Vol. II., p. 166, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888; North, 
Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 16, 1890 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Ser. II., Vol. IV., p. 398, 1890 (N.S.W.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 51, 1898 ; 
HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 3, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 31, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 10, 1902 (Viet.) ; Carter, 
ib., Vol. III., p. 34, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; C. E. B(elcher), ib., Vol. V., p. 204, \ 906 
(Viet.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. VI., p. 177, 1907 (Viet.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VIL, p. 2, 1907 
(Viet.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 42, 1908 ; Crossman, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 86, 1909, W.A. ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 6, 1910 (Tas.) ; North, Austr, 
Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 258, 1912 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. I., p. 146, 1913 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 206, 1914 (N.T.). 
Falco peregrinus melanogenys Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 251, 1912. 
Falco peregrinus submdanogenys Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I,, p. 33, 1912 ; South- 
west Australia. 
* The Plate is lettered Bhynchodon submelanogenys. 
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