430 FALCONID.«i. 



3. Cerchneis moluccensis. 



Falco tinmmculus, Hvrsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 13o (1822) ; Vigors, 



Life Raffl. App. p. G50 (1830) ; Miill. Nat. Gesch. Land n. Vogelk. 



p."209 (1839-41). 

 Tiununculus moluccensis, Hombr. ^- Jacq. Voi/. Pule Sud, Zool. Atlas, 



pl. 1. tig. 1 (1842), et texte, iii. p. 46 (1853) ; Lp. Consp. i. p. 27 



(1850) ; id. Her. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 537 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 96 (1855) ; Pelz. V'erh. z.-b. Wien, xiii. p. 625 (1863) ; Wall. 



Ibis, 1868, p. 5 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 23 (1869) ; Walden, Tr. 



Z. S. viii. p. 33 (1872). 

 Cresserelle des Moluques, Temm. ^ Sclil. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 3 



(1850). 

 Tinnunculus alaudarius, Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. i. 



p. 13 (1854). 

 Falco moluccensis, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Falc. p. 28 (1862) ; id. Voy. 



Nederl. hid. Valkv. pp. 6, 47, pl. 1. figs. 3-5 (1866) ; id. Revue, 



p. 42 (1873). 



Adult male. Above deep bay, nearly chestnut, with rather broad 

 arrow-head spots of black, almost amounting to bands on the scapu- 

 lars and inner secondaries ; the head and hind neck streaked with 

 black ; quills blackish brown, deeply notched or barred with rufous 

 or rufous white on the inner web ; the inner primaries tipped with 

 rufous white, the secondaries deep rufous Uke the back ; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and tail bluish grey, the latter paler beneath, tipped 

 with huffy white, before which is a broad subterminal bar of black ; 

 forehead rufous white ; cheeks silvery whitish, streaked with black ; 

 throat rufous white ; rest of under surface deep bay ; the thighs, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts unspotted : the breast longitudinally 

 streaked with black, which gradually widens out into arrow-head 

 bars on the flanks and sides of the body ; under wing-coverts paler 

 rufous, with black spots and cross markings ; cere and orbits pale 

 yellow ; biU deep horn-blue, lighter at base of upper and yellowish 

 at base of lower mandible, the tip black ; feet bright pale yellow ; 

 iris dark brown. Total length 11-5 inches, ciilmen 0-7, wing 8-9, 

 tail 5'7, tarsus 1-65. 



Female. Very similar to the male, but has a more banded upper 

 surface ; head rufous and the tail blue, as in the male, but with 

 more or less distinct bars on the latter ; on the under surface of the 

 body a little more broadly banded than the male. Total length 

 13 inches, wing 9-85, tarsus 1*6. 



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