250 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a CuUection of 



119. Cerchneis tinnimculus carlo. African Common 

 Kestrel. 



Cei'chneis tinnunculus carlo Hart. & Neum. Journ. fiir 

 Ornith. 1907, p. 592 : Bussidimo, nr. Harar, Abyssinia. 



a. ? ad. Lengototo, 6000 ft. Nov. 7. 



b. ^ iram. Narossura, 5000 ft. Nov. 17. 



c. ? ad. Akinyo River, Bakoro, 3600 ft. Feb. 2. 



d. S juv. E. slopes of Nakwai Hills, 3600 ft. Nov. 8. 

 Total length in flesh : (J 13| ifc 121 inches ; ? 14^ & 14^ 



inches. Wing : ^ 238 k 227 mm. ; ? 257 & 254 ram. 



Quite a good and sound race, being always darker and 

 much more clearly marked below than C. t. tinnunculus 

 (Linn. Syst. Nat. ibth ed. 1758, p. 90 : Sweden). 



Both the females are adult, in worn plumage, and one has 

 new feathering appearing on the mantle. The young male 

 is assuming adult feathering on the Ijrcast, mantle, and 

 rump. The other male is not quite fully adult, having dark 

 bands across the tail. 



Hartert and Neumann, in their description, point out that 

 the figures of C. t. arthuri in the J. f. O. 1904, pi. xvi., 

 }epresent this subspecies and have nothing to do with the 

 true C. arthuri; this is quite correct. 



[ cJ ? . Irides brown ; bill bluish horn ; cere yellow ; legs 

 and toes yellow. Stomach contained mice, lizards, grass- 

 hoppers, and locusts. Not common in the Nakwai Hills.] 



120. Cerchneis rupicoloides arthuri. Buxton's Kestrel. 

 Tinnunculus arthuri Gurney, List of Diurn. B. of Prey, 



1884, p. 156 : Mombasa. 



a. S ad. Mt. Suswa. Sept. 26. 



Total length in flesh : 12g^ inches. Wing : 216 mm. 



In good dress and but slightly worn. 



This race of C. r. rupicoloides Smith (S. A. Q. J. 1880, 

 p. 238 : Groene River, Namaqualand), from which it differs 

 in being larger, is equal in size to C. r. fieldi Elliot (Publ. 

 Field Mus., Orn. i. pt. ii. 1897, p. 58 : Silo Plain, Somaliland), 

 but differs from that race in being always darker. 



[Irides white ; bill bluish horn, yellowish at base; cere 

 yellow; legs and toes yellow. I had just shot a specimen 



