312 YALCONID.!:, 



Cerchneis nipicoloides {Srnit?i). 

 (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 



Tinnunciilus rupicoloides, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 288; Haayner, Ibts, 1901, 



p. 16. 

 Cerchneis rupicoloides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 432 (1874) ; id. ed. 



Laym-d, Birds S. Africa, p. 63 (1875-84) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 277 



(1899j ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 10(1899). 



The eggs of the Great African Kestrel are of a broad oval or 

 elliptical form, smooth, and with scarcely any gloss. In the majority 

 the ground is cream-colour, and this is thickly freckled, dotted, and 

 hlotched with yellowish brown or different sha les of reddish brown. 

 Some specimens have a pale red ground, smeared and blotched with 

 darker red. The eggs measure from 1'6 to 1*8 in length, and from 

 1-3 to 1-4 in breadth. 



2. S. Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Transvaal {T. Ayres). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Potchefstroom, Transvaal {T. A.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Griqualand (7". C. ^fwiore). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Natal {Field Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Cerchneis newtoni (Gumey). 



Falco gracilis, Roch (§• E. Netct. Ibis, 1862, p. 267. 



Cerchneis newtoni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 433 (1874) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 277 (1899) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersanunl. p. 10 (1899). 

 Tiununculus newtonii, Milne-Edwards ^- Grandidier, Hist. Nat.Madar/., 



Ois. i. p. 43, pi. 301. tigs. 3, 3 a, 3 6 (1879) ; Cotcan, Proc. Boy. Ph'ys. 



Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 148 (1882). 



The eggs of Newton's Kestrel vary from a long narrow oval to a 

 spheroidal shape, and they show no gloss. They are very variable 

 in their coloration. One specimen in the series, for instance, is 

 uniform deep brownish red, speckled with black ; another is buff, 

 minutely speelded with dark brown ; several examples are blotched 

 with two shades of reddish brown ; others, again, have a rich 

 reddish -buff ground, profusely marked with reddish brown and 

 purplish brown ; and one has a deep reddish-brown cap at the large 

 end and no markings elsewhere. A series measures from 1'3 to 

 1-55 in length, and from 1'08 to 1'2 in breadth. 



16. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



6. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Madagascar (E. Netoton : Tristra^n Crowley Bequest. 

 Cull.). 



Cerchneis naumanni (FleiscJi.). 



Falco cenchris, Thien. Fort}>flanz. c/es. Voy. tab. Hi. fig. 3, s-rf (1845-54) ; 

 Sitnpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 380 ; Kriiper, J.f. O. 1869, p. 25; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. vi. p. 125(1871); Seebohm, Brit. i?iVf/.s, i. p. 51,pl. 4 

 (1883) ; id. Egys of Brit. Birds, p. 8, pi. 4. figs. 2 & 3 (1896) ; Irby, 

 Orn. Str. Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 196 (1895^ 



Cerchneis cenchris, Baedeker, Eier. Eur. Vrig. tab. 10. fig. 4 (1855-63). 



