149 



301. 



Size similar ; wing cJ 9.3, 9 9-8 in. ; ($ 

 above pale rufous, almost unspotted ; 

 head pale bluish grey, washed with rufous, 

 and with black shaft-lines ; rump and tail 

 blue-grey, latter with broad subterminal 

 black band and white tips ; sides of face 

 greyish white ; below huffish white, the 

 chest tawny buff, that and sides with black 

 shaft-stripes ; under wing-coverts white ; 

 $ head and tail like back, the tail barred 

 with black. 



Cerchneis cenchroides cenchroides Vig. and 

 Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc, xv., p. 183 

 (1827). [N. S. Wales.] 

 Nankeen Kestrel. 



East 

 Australia. 



301a. Cerchneis cenchroides milligani Math., Nov. N.W. 



Zool., xviii., p. 253 (1912). [Parry's Creek, Australia, 



N.W .Australia.] Northern 



Dusky Nankeen Kestrel. Territory. 



Smaller ; below darker, decided cinnamon 

 pink ; tail rusty cinnamon. 

 301b. Cerchneis cenchroides unicolor Milligan, S.W. and 

 Emu, iv., p. 1 (1904). [Yalgoo.] Mid. W. 



Westralian Nankeen- Kestrel. Australia. 



Larger ; wing cJ 11, $ 11.4 in. ; S above 

 tawny rufous, with broad cross-bars of 

 black ; head uniform, but streaked with 

 black ; rump and upper tail-coverts black- 

 ish, barred with fulvous ; tail ashy rufous, 

 banded with black, the subterminal band 

 broad, followed by a white tip ; primaries 

 blackish brown, the inner ones mottled 

 with rufous on inner webs and spotted on 

 outer webs ; below dull tawny rufous, 

 breast streaked with brown, flanks more 

 heavily marked ; under wing-coverts 

 white ; ? similar, but flanks more barred. 



