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shape, and a few specimens are slightly glossy. They arc typically 

 speckled and spotted, and but sekloni blotched. The ground is 

 generally cream-colour, and the markings are reddish brown, 

 yellowish brown, or umber-brown in different combinations. On 

 the whole the eggs of this Kestrel are dingy in colour. They 

 measure from 1"25 to 1'4 in length, and from 1 to I'l in breadth. 



1. North America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. North America {Smit/is. Inst.). Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



3. Rocky Mountains. Gould Coll. 



5. Princeton, New Jersey, 28th April Princeton University [E.l. 



{W.E.D. Scott). 



3. Princeton, 1,3th May ( W. E. D. S.). Princeton University [E.]. 



3. Miami, Florida {Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. St. Croix, West Indies {A. ^ E. Crowley Bequest. 



'Nexoton). 



1. Great Fountain, St. Croix, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. 4" E. N.). 



Cerchneis cinnamomina (Swains.). 

 (Plate XV. figs. 4 & 5.) 



Cerchueis cinnamomina, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 430 (1874) ; 



id. Hancl-l. i. p. 278 (1890) : Kehrk. Eat. Elersaviml. p. 10 (1899). 

 Tinnuuculus sparverius, Scl. 4" Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 541. 

 Tinuunculus ciuuamominus, Scl. i<f Huds. Arffent. Oni. ii. p. 69 (1889) ; 



.Tomes, New List Chilian Birds, p. 7 (1892) ; von IheriiKj, Rev. Mits. 



Paulista, iv. p. 272 (1900). 



The eggs of the Cinnamon Kestrel in the Collection are mostly 

 very similar to those of C. sjparveria. Three specimens, however, 

 are peculiar. They are pale rufous or brownish orange, speckled 

 with two shades of dark brown. Eleven examples measure from 

 132 to 1'44 in length, and from 1*1 to 1"17 in breadth. 



4. Santa Elena, Antioquia, U.S. Co- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lombia (T. K. Salmon). 



6. Central Chile {Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



1. Argentine Republic. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ERYTHROPUS, Brehm. 

 Erythropus vespertinus {Linn.). 



Falco vespertinus, Thien. Fortpjlunz. r/es. J'off. tab. lii. fig. 1, a-d (1845- 

 54) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 93 (1871) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. 

 p. 42, pi. 4 (1883) ; id. Eygs of Brit. Birds, p. 7, pi. 4. fig. 10 (1896). 



Erythropus vesT^ertinus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 10. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 

 Shar2)e, Hand-l. i. p. 278 (1899). 



Cerchneis vespertina, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 443 (1874). 



The eggs of the Red-legged Kestrel are quite similar to those of 

 Cerchneis tinnimculus, but are smaller. They measure from 1'32 

 to 1-54 in length, and from 1-1 to 1-25 in breadth. 



