147 



299f. 



Larger; wing c^ 9.50-9.75, ? 10.0-10.55 

 in. ; head darker than in C. t. iinnuncula ; 

 dark spots on mantle larger and with 

 broad dark shaft-marks to the feathers ; 

 below darker than C. c. tinniincula . 

 Cerchneis tinnuncula japonica Temm. and 

 Schleg., in Siebold's Fauna Jap. Aves, p. 2, 

 pi. 1, and lb. (1844). [Japan.] 

 Japanese Kestrel. 



Japan ; 

 S. in winter 

 to China «& 

 Hainan. 



299g. 



Rather smaller ; wing S 9.10-9.50, tail 6 ; 

 wing ? 9.50-10 in. ; smaller and much 

 darker than C. t. tinnuncula ; much deeper 

 rufous above and more heavily spotted ; 

 head and tail showing a great tendency to 

 a rufous wash, and tail more generally 

 with remains of black bars even when 

 adult ; chest more heavily striped and 

 breast with larger spots. 

 Cerchneis tinnuncula saturata (Blyth) Jnl. 

 As. Soc. Beng., xxviii., p. 277 (1859). 

 [Tenasserim.] 

 Himalayan Kestrel. 



Mountains 

 of N. India 

 to China ; 

 in winter 

 S. to Tra- 

 vancore ; 

 cas. Ceylon? 



Smaller than C. t. tinnuncula ; wing (^ 8.70- 

 9-45 in. ; dark form approaching saturata. 

 299h. Cerchneis tinnuncula carlo Hart & Neu- 

 mann, J.f.O., 1907, p. 592. [Bissidimo near 

 Harrar, type in Tring Mus.] 

 Central African Kestrel. 



Tropical 

 Africa (So- 

 maliland, 

 Abyssinia 

 and Blue 

 Nile to 

 Victoria 

 Nyanza 

 Tangan- 

 yika) ; 

 S. Arabia. 



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