434 



faXconid^. 



Adult female. Similar to male, but larger. Total length 11 inches, 

 wing 8'2, tarsus 1'55. 



Nestling {Mus. Litgd.). Deep rufous, broadly streaked on the head 

 and neck, and barred on the back with black ; tail -deep rufous, 

 broadly tipped with creamy buif. and barred with black, the sub- 

 terminal band very broad ; sides of face and neck pale rufous ; the 

 throat, thighs, and under tail-coverts buffy white ; the chest streaked 

 and the breast spotted or barred with black. 



06s. The rufous colour on the underparts is shown by the fore- 

 going bird to be a sign of youth ; and remains of it are to be found 

 on some of the white-breasted birds. As, however, examples of both 

 sexes of white and rufous-tinted birds are killed at the same seasons 

 of the year (as is shown by the carefully collected series in the 

 Leiden Museum), the only way to account for these differences is by 

 supposing that it is some time before the bird attains maturity, and 



probably breeds in the rufous dress, 

 rufous individuals have more grey 

 breasted ones. 



Ifab. Madagascar. 



a. 2 ad. st. Madagascar. 



b. j ad. sk. Madagascar. 



c. d. 2 ad. sk. Madagascar. 

 e. cJ ad. sk. Nossi-B6. 



It should be noticed that the 

 on the head than the white- 



Purchased. 

 S. -African Museum. 

 Mr. Lormier [C.l. 

 Heer Van Dam [C], 



8. Cerclmeis punctata. 



Falco punctatus, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 45 (1823) ; ScM. ^ Poll. F. M. 



Ois. p. 33, pi. 11. fig. 3 (1868) ; Schl Remie Acapitr. p. 44 (1873). 

 Tinnunculus punctatus, Gray^ Gen. of B. i. p. 21 (1844) ; B}}. Comp. 



i. p. 27 (1850) ; Strickl Orn. Syn. p. 98 (1855) ; Newt. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 271 ; Pek. Verh. z.-b. Wien, xiii. p. 626 (1863) ; Gurney, Ibis, 



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



Adtdt female. Above duU foxy rufous, with rather broad trans- 

 verse bars of black, the head streaked with blackish shaft-stripes ; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries coloured like the back, the latter 

 slightly inclining to whitish at the tip ; primaries blackish brown, 

 deeply notched with rufous white on the inner web, and indistinctly 

 margined with rufous on the outer one ; tail deep bay, with a paler 

 tip, crossed by six narrower bands of black ; forehead and sides of 

 the face whitish, with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; sides of neck, 

 throat, and entire underparts white, the former unspotted, the 

 latter very distinctly marked with large oval spots of brownish 

 black, tinged with rufous, these spots smaller and more longitudinal 

 on the centre of the breast and flanks ; cere and orbits light yellow ; 

 bill horn-brown, yellowish at base ; feet straw-yellow, claws nearly 

 black ; iris dark brown. Total length 13 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 7*6, tail 5-8, tarsus 1-55. 



Adidt male. Similar to adult female, but much smaller. Total 

 length 11-5 inches, wing 7, tail 5-5, tarsus 1-5. {Mus. A. Newton.) 



Hah. Mauritius. 



a. Ad. st. 



b. Ad. sk. 



Mauritius. 

 Mauritius. 



E. Newton, Esq. [P.]. 



