78. CERCHNEI8. 429 



2. Cerchneis rupicola. 



Le Monta^ard, Levaill. Ois. cCAfr. i. p. 144, pi. 35 (1799). 



Falco rupicolus, Baud. Traite, ii. p. 135 (1800, ex Levaill.) ; Smith, 

 S.-Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 237 (1830) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 47 

 (1858) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Falc. p. 27 (1862) : id. Revue, p. 41 

 (1873). 



Falco capensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 192 (1809, ex Levaill.). 



Cerchneis rupicola, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 314. 



Cerchneis capensis, Boie, id snpm. 



Tinnunculus rupicolus, Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 21 (1844); Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 27 (1850); Eaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 53; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 

 de Zool. 1854, p. 537 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 97 (1855) ; Gurnet/, 

 Lbis, 1859, p. 240 ; 3Iont. Ibis, 1862, p. 335; Feb. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 

 xiii. p. 624 (1863) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 22 (1867) ; Boeage, 

 Jorn. Lisb. 1867, pp. 132, 331, 1809, p. 337 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 23 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 570 ; Gtimey, in Anderss. 

 B. Damara Ld. p. 18 (1872). 



Adult male. Head and hinder neck dull blue-grey, with black 

 shaft-8tripes ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts clear rufous, with 

 a few black spots rather oval in shape ; quills brown, the inner pri- 

 maries and outer secondaries tipped with bufFy whitish ; the inner 

 secondaries brown externally, internally rufous, the innermost ones 

 entirely rufous like the back, with a few arrow-head spots of 

 black ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail pale bluish grey, the latter 

 tipped with buffy white and crossed by a broad subterminal bar of 

 black ; lores whitish ; sides of face dull blue-grey like the head, 

 streaked with black in the same manner ; under surface of body 

 deep fawn ; the chest striped and the sides of the body scantily 

 spotted with black ; the thighs, abdomeu, and under tail-coverts 

 unspotted, the latter a little paler ; throat rufous white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, with a few scattered longitudinal spots of black ; cere, 

 orbits, aud feet dull yellow ; bill horn-black, yellowish at base of 

 both mandibles ; iris duU brown. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 

 0"8, wing 10, tail 6"5, tarsus 1"65. 



Female. Similar to the male, and having the tail blue-grey, banded 

 with black and tipped with pale rufous, the subterminal bar being 

 very broad ; head rufous, streaked with black ; the back and wing- 

 coverts broadly banded with arrow-head bars of black ; cheeks dusky 

 black, indistinctly streaked on the lower margin with pale rufous ; 

 under surface of body as in the male, but streaked, rather than 

 spotted, with black. Total length 14 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 9-9, 

 tail 6-6, tarsus 1-7. 



Hah. South Africa. 



