162 



313. Dissodedes dickinsoni Sclat., P.Z.S., 1864, 

 p. 248. [Shire River.] 



Dickinson's Kestrel. 



Wing cJ 8.75, $ 9.1 in. ; above ashy grey 

 with black shaft-stripes, paler and bluer 

 grey on rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts barred with 

 greyish black ; primaries blackish, barred 

 with rufous or whitish on inner webs ; tail 

 black, all but the 2 central feathers barred 

 with greyish white ; forehead and throat 

 whitish, streaked on throat and barred 

 below with ashy brov\m.. 



314. Dissodedes zoniventris (Peters), Sitz." k. 

 Pr. Akad. Wiss. Berl.. 1853, p. 7. [Mada- 

 gascar.] 



Madagascar Grey Kestrel. 



Zambesi 

 River, 

 Nyasaland, 

 Angola. 



Mada- 

 gascar. 



Sub. Order III. PAN DION ES. 



Gen. LXXXVIII. PANDION Savigny (1809) 



Plumage very close 

 accessory plumule ; 

 laterally in the head 

 cealed by bristles ; 

 devoid of feathers, 

 covered with small 

 toe reversible. 



and compact, wanting the 

 no facial disk ; eyes placed 

 ; nostrils generally not con- 

 tarsus reticulated ; toes 

 the under surface rough, 

 pointed scales ; the outer 



vSize large ; length ad. about 24 in. ; wing 

 19-20.90 in. ; head white, the crown 

 striped with blackish brown ; nape feath- 

 ers elongated and lanceolate ; ear-coverts 

 and stripe through eye blackish brown ; 

 above dark brown, with paler margins to 

 most of feathers ; tail dark brown, inner 

 webs barred with dark brown and whitish ; 

 below white, the breast varied with pale 

 brown centres to the feathers ; bill black ; 

 feet blue. 



