FALCONID^ TINNUNCULUS 277 



Tinnunculus rupicolus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 240 [Natal] ; P. L. 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 22 [Windvogelberg] ; Layarcl, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 22 (1867) ; Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 18 

 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 360 [Tugela river] ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 66 [Pinetown] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 341 [Potcliefstroom] ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 465 ; Holub and Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 29 

 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239 [Spaldiiigs] ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 326 [Kroonstad] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 146 (1896) ; Woodivard 

 Bros. Ibis, 1898, p. 220 [Zululand] ; Haacjner, Ibis, 1901, p. 193 

 [near Johannesburg]. 



Cerchneis rupicola, Sharju-, Cat. B. M. i, p. 429 (1874) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1874, p. 580, pi. 68 ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 62, 800 (1875-84) : 

 Oates, Matabeleland, p. 299 (1881) [Newcastle, Natal] ; Fleck, Journ. 

 Ornith. 1894, p. 394 ; Sowerby, Ibis, 1898, p. 575 [near Salisbury] ; 

 Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 152 (1899) ; Beichenoiv, Vdy. Afr. i, p. 

 640 (1901). 



"Eoodevalli," '"Eooivalk," or '• Steenvalk" of Dutch. 



Fig. 91. — Tinnunculus rupicolus. x \^. 



Description. — Crown, nape, and sides of the head dull slate 

 narrowly streaked with black ; back, scapulars and wing-coverts 

 chestnut with a few diamond- shaped spots of dark brown ; wing- 

 quills and greater coverts dark brown, the former barred on their 

 inner webs with white ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers slaty- 

 grey, the latter with a broad subterminal band of black and white 

 tips, all except the two centre feathers narrowly barred with black 

 on the inner web only ; below, chestnut becoming much paler on \ 

 the throat and under tail-coverts, the upper breast with longitudinal, 

 the lower with diamond-shaped black spots, thighs and under tail- 

 coverts unspotted ; under wing-coverts white with a few black spots. 



Iris dark brown ; bill bluish-black, darkest at the tip ; cere and 

 orbits yellow ; legs ochre-yellow ; claws black. 



