432 FALCOHID^.. 



5. Cerchneis rupicoloides. 



Falco rupicoloides, Smith, S. Aft: Q. Journ. i. p. 238 (1830) ; id. III. 



Zool. 8. Afr. pi. xcii. (1849) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Falc. p. 29 (1862) ; 



Finsch u.'Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 76 (1870). 

 Tiuuunculus rupicoloides, Grai/, Gen. of B. i. p. 21 (1844) ; Kaup, 



Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 53 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 27 (1850) ; id. Rev. et 



Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 537 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 98 (1855) ; Pelz. 



Verh. z.-h. Wien, xiii. p. 625 (1863); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 23 



(1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 142 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 288 ; 



Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 23 (1869) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. 



p. 19 (1872). 

 Falco smithii, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 43 (1873). 



Adult male. Above tawny rufous, with very broad cross bars of 

 black, some of the feathers also tipped with fulvous, the vdng- 

 coverts coloured like the back, the bars on the primary coverts 

 being broader and darker; quills blackish brown, the inner webs 

 almost entirely white at the base, notched with rufous on the inner 

 feathers, some of which are also spotted with rufous on the outer 

 web as well ; rump and upper tail-coverts blackish, with bars and 

 margins of fulvous ; tail alternately barred with black and ashy 

 rufous, the former broad, the latter narrow, all the feathers tipped 

 with white, before which a broad subterminal band of black, some 

 of the whitish bands shaded with greyish ; head and hind neck 

 rufous, streaked instead of barred with black ; forehead, eyebrow, 

 and sides of the face whitish buff, narrowly lined with black ; under- 

 parts dull tawny rufous, the throat, vent, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts unspotted, the breast mesially streaked with brown shaft- 

 markings, broader on the flanks ; under wing-coverts white, the 

 axillaries washed with rufous, with black shaft-stripes ; cere and 

 eyelid yellow; bare space round eye and basal part of biU livid 

 yellowish, remainder of bill horn-colour; iris whitish, deeply im- 

 pregnated with brown. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 

 11, tail 6-5, tarsus 1*75. 



Adult female. Yery similar to the male, but the flanks more barred 

 with black. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 11-4, tail 

 6'o, tarsus 1-85. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a. 2 ad. sk. South Africa. S. -African Musexmi. Type 



of species. 



b. Pull. St. Black Eiver, S. Africa. M. J. Verreaux [0.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Transvaal {Ayres). K. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. St. South Africa. D. W. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Cerclmeis alopex. 



Falco alopex, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 10 (1856); id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



i. p. 41 (1869) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Tor. v. p. 727 (1870) ; 



Finsch, Nachtr. Hevgl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. xvii (1871). 

 Tinnunculus alopex, Heugl. Ibis, 1861, p. 69, pi. 3; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. 



Wien, xiii. p. 625 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 23 (1869). 

 Tinnunculus rupicolus, Antin. Cat. Descr. Ucc. p. 15 (1865, nee 



Daud.). 



