78. CEKCHNEIS. 



441 



throughout Brazil and Peru to New Granada, but not in Venezuela 

 or Guiana. 



a. <S ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad- sk. 



c. (S ad. St. 



d. 2 ad. St. 



e. /, g. c? ad. sk. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. 

 i. cS ad. sk. 

 A;. cJ ad. sk. 

 1, 7n. (5 2 ad. sk. 



n. c? ad. sk. 



0. (5 ad. sk. 

 p, q. (5 2 ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 

 $. 2 juv. sk. 



S. W. America. 



Straits of Magellan. 

 Valparaiso. 



Patagonia. 



Brazil. 

 Brazil. 

 Brazil. 

 Bahia. 

 Tambo valley, Peru, 



Oct. 21, 1867. 

 Tambo valley, Peru, 



June 2, 1868. 

 Bogota. 

 New Granada. 

 New Granada. 

 New Granada. 



Capt. Kellett and Lieut, Wood 



[p.]. 

 The Admiralty [P.]. 

 Sir W. Burnett and Admiral 



Fitzroy [P.]- 

 Sir W. Burnett and Admiral 



Fitzroy [P.]. 

 M. Claussen [P." 

 M. Claussen [P.' 

 Lieut. Maw [P.' 

 Dr. Wucherer [P.]. 

 H. Whitely, Esq. [C.]. 



H. Whitely, Esq. [C.]. 



Purchased. 



T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C 

 T. K. Salmon, Esq. [C." 

 T. K. Sahnon, Esq. [C 



15. Cerchneis isaheUina. 



Emerillon de Cayenne, Biif. PI- Enl. i. pi. 444 (1770). 

 Falco isabellinus, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 281 (1837). 

 Pcecilomis isabellinus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 537. 

 Tinnunciilus sparverius, Scl. l^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 2.54. 

 Tinnunculus sparverius, var. isabellinus, Midi/w. Pr. Philad. Acad. 



1870, p. 149. 

 Falco sparverius, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 556. 



Adult male. Head entirely clear slaty blue, forehead and lores 

 whitish ; back and scapulars pale cinnamon, the latter somewhat 

 barred with black, the lower ones more distinctly; lower back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail deep cinnamon, the latter tipped 

 with ashy white, before which a broad subterminal bar of black, the 

 outer feather marked alternately with greyish white and black for 

 about two thirds of its outer web, and irregularly spotted with the 

 same on the inner one, the second feather also a little variegated ; 

 wing-coverts slaty blue, indistinctly marked with black down the 

 centre of the feathers ; primaries black, barred with white on the 

 inner web ; secondaries black at the base, slaty grey towards the tip, 

 which is white, the innermost conspicuously barred with black on 

 the inner web ; sides of face and throat pure white ; a streak from 

 the fore part of eye down the cheeks, another behind the ear-coverts, 

 and another on the sides of the neck, black ; sides of neck and under 

 surface of body pale fawn, shading into huffy white on the flanks 

 and thighs, sides of body greyish, with a few remains of black spots 

 on the sides of the breast ; under wing-coverts white, the lower ones 

 half barred with black ; bill horn-blue, yellowish at base of both 

 mandibles. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 7, tail 5, 

 tarsus 1'3. 



Feiacde. Head blue, with sometimes a very faint tinge of rufous on 



