78. CEKCHNKIS. 



439 



Hah. The whole of North America, extending to Central America 

 and the Antilles. 



13. Cerchneis dominicensis. 



L'Emerillon de St. Domingue, Briss. Orn. i. p. 389, pi. xxxii. fig. 2 



(1760). 

 St. Domingo Falcon, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. pt. 1, p. 288 (1781, ex £7-iss.). 

 Falco dominicensis, Gm. S. iV. i. p. 288 (1788, ex Lath.). 

 Tinnunculus dominicensis, Sti'ickl. Orn. Syn, p. 100 (18.5.5) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 24 (1869). 

 Falco sparverius, Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 2.31. 

 Tinnunculus sparverius, var. dominicensis, Ridgw. Pr. Fliilad, Acad. 



1870, p. 149. 



Adult. Crown of -the head deep rufous with blackish shaft-stripes, 

 encircled on all sides with duU slatj grey ; forehead and a narrow 

 eyebrow whitish ; sides of the face white, with the moustachial and 

 other black streaks as in F. sparverius ; upper surface of body dull 

 ferruginous, everywhere transversely banded with black, the tail a 

 little brighter, banded with black like the back ; quUls black, 

 banded with rufous or rufous white, paler beneath, the inner secon- 

 daries uniform with the back and similarly barred ; throat white ; 

 rest of under surface creamy white, with a rufous tinge, the chest 

 streaked, the breast spotted with black, the spots rather large ; 

 under wing-coverts huffy white, with pale brown shaft-stripes. 

 Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-6.5, wing 6-9, tail 5-7, tarsus 1-4. 



Ohs. I do not know this Kestrel well, having only seen the one 

 specimen described ; but, as far as I have been able to make out the 

 species, the sexes are both banded (c/. Ridgway, Pr. Phil. Acad. 

 1870, p. 149). 



Hah. St. Domingo and St. Thomas. 



a. Ad. sk. St. Thomas, W. I. {R. Swift). ^ Smithsonian Institution [P.]. 



14. Cerchneis cinnamomiiia. 



Bidens sparverius, Spix, Av. Bras. p. 16 (1824). 



Bidens dominicensis, Spix, Av. Bras. p. 16 (1824). 



Falco sparverius. Max. Beitr. Orn. Bras. iii. nt. l o. 110 (1830); 



