78. CERCHNEIS. 433 



Adult male. Everywhere foxy red, the head narrowly and the 

 back and wing-coverts a little more broadly streaked with black 

 down the centre, the greater wing-coverts with remains of blackish 

 bars ; quills 4)lack, narrowly margined and broadly tipped with pale 

 foxy red, becoming whitish on the extreme margin, the secondaries 

 coloured like the rest of the back, and mesially streaked and irre- 

 gularly barred with black ; tail foxy red, deeper than the back, 

 crossed with about fifteen narrow bars of black ; throat uniform 

 pale foxy red ; rest of under surface foxy red, with very narrow 

 central streaks of black, becoming rufescent on the thighs and under 

 wing- and tail-coverts ; under surface of quills creamy white at base 

 of inner web, shading into pale rufous, with remains of blackish 

 bars, the apical portion blackish, with foxy red tips ; biU bluish horn- 

 colour, the under mandible yellowish ; orbits and cere violet lead- 

 colour ; feet yellow. Total length 15 inches, cuknen 0-8, wing 10-6, 

 tail 7'8, tarsus 1-85. 



Hah. N.E. Africa. 



a. $ ad, sk. Bogos Land, July 21, 1871 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 



(^AnUnori). 



7. Cerchneis newtoni, 



Falco gracilis, Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 18 (1861) ; Roch 8^ Netct, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 267. 

 Falco punctatus, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Falc. p. 28 (1862). 

 Tinnunculus newtoni, Chtrtiey, Ibis, 1863, p. 34, pi. ii. ; Newton, t. c. 



p. 336 ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 319 ; Gitrney, Ibis, 



1869, p. 447 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 23 (1869). 

 Falco newtoni, Schl. R Z. S. 1866, p. 420; Schl. 8f Poll. Faun. Madag. 



Ois. p. 32, pi. 11. figs. 1, 2 (1868) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Remie Accipitr. 



p. 43 (1873). 



Adult. Above light rufous, the head and hinder neck streaked 

 with narrow linear black shaft-stripes ; the scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 and inner secondaries spotted with arrow-head black markings, 

 obsolete on the interscapulary region, which is rufous, with only a few 

 black shaft-markings ; rump and upper tail-coverts dark bluish grey, 

 with black arrow-head central markings, larger on the latter; primaries 

 blackish, notched with white or rufous white on the inner web ; secon- 

 daries coloured like the back ; tail-feathers alternately barred with 

 dark bluish grey and black, the subterminal band being very broad ; 

 forehead, as well as a narrow eyebrow and sides of the face, white, 

 the ear-coverts inclining to silveiy whit« ; under surface of body 

 creamy white, slightly washed with rufous on the chest, on which 

 the central black spots on the feathers are elongated ; on the breast 

 and flanks they are more oval in shape, larger on the latter ; the 

 throat, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts unspotted ; under 

 wing-coverts white, streaked with black, the greater ones and axil- 

 laries marked with oval black spots, like the flanks ; cere orange- 

 yellow ; bill horn-blue, yellowish at the base ; orbits and feet orange- 

 yellow ; iris hazel. Total length 10-2 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 7"4, 

 tail 5, tarsus 1*4. 



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