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On Tinnunculus cenchris and Tinnunculus pekiiiensis. 



In my notes on T. pekinensis I have briefly described three 

 males of that Kestrel^; and since then the Norwich Museum 

 has acquired another adult male, obtained on March 26th, 

 1880, by Mr. Inglis at Dilkosha, in Cachar. In this speci- 

 men the entire wing-coverts are grey, with the exception of 

 a very slight sprinkling of rufous on the right wing adjacent 

 to the scapulars, and a still slighter but similar tinge in the 

 same position on the left wing ; the scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars in this bird are of a rich and rather dark rufous, 

 and it may therefore, as regards the upper surface, be con- 

 sidered a very typical example of T. pekinensis ; but below, it 

 is quite as much spotted as an ordinary male of T. cenchris, 

 the total number of dark spots on the under surface being 

 about fifty. 



The Norwich Museum has also recently acquired a male 

 Kestrel, shot by Mr. Ayres on a farm about 30 miles from 

 Pptchefstroom, in the Transvaal, on January 29th, 1879, which, 

 I think, is not to be distinguished from T. pekinensis, as the 

 entire wing-coverts are grey, with the exception of the inter- 

 mixture of a few rufous feathers (about five on the left wing 

 and one on the right) and a slight tinge of the same hue 

 on the edges and shafts of a few of the grey feathers, 

 especially those of the least coverts. This specimen has a 

 rich rufous mantle, but a shade paler than that of the Dil- 

 kosha Kestrel previously mentioned; on the under surface 

 there are only about ten dark spots, and these are very small 

 and mostly on the flanks. It is, I think, impossible to say 

 with certainty whether this bird is (like many specimens of 

 ' Vide Ibis, 1881, p. 471. 



