CKRCHNRIS. .,^~ 



.nea.u,-e:-Le„gth(.^)...3 x 1-58 inches ; (B) .-.7 x .o, inches; (C,.:; x r-fti inches; 

 ( -^)2 1/ X 1-57 inches. An unusual marked set of two, taken by the late Mr. K H Bennett 

 at Moss.nel, New South VNales, on the 9th Septen.ber, 1,^X5, are of a famt bufty-white ground 

 colour, nr.nutely freckled and boldly blotched wkh redd.sh-brown, iuternungled with similar 

 markmgsofapurphsh.brown hue on one specimen, and nch reddish-black on the other and 

 closely resemhhng nun.ature eggs of the White-headed Osprey (P.uJion Icucoccpkalns) :-Len.th 

 (A) 2 X 1-57 niches; (li)2-o6 x 1-57 inches. 



Nestlings, when al,out three weeks old, are covered above and below wuh whity-brown 

 down, exposed portions of the tips of the quills and tail feathers dark brown with rufous margins 

 ^oung birds are dark brown above with dull rufous margins to the tips of the feathers of 

 t e ack, rump and the scapulars, upper w,ng and upper tail-coverts ; tips of the inner secondaries 

 and largest primaries pale rufous, passing into fulvous white on the external edges ; tail-feathers 

 greyish-brown tipped w,th pale rufous, and strongly barred across the centre of the webs with 

 darker ru ous; toi^head, crown of the head and nape brown, with the remains of white down at 

 the tips of some of the feathers; median portion of the feathers on the nape pale fawn their 



treaked with black, the hinder portion of cheeks a deeper fawn and more sparingly streaked • 

 orepo t ,,,,,, ,,^.,.^ ,,.,,p„,,,^,„^ ,.^„,^^,„,^,.^^ ^,^^^^,^^^^ surface br^L mottled 



wuh cream fawn colour ; under tail-coverts cream-fawn colour, the longer ones with a broad 



subterminal brown cross-bar. Total length 16 inches, wing 10, tail h. 



in El'strir t "," '"', 't'"""' '"°"''" ™"'""''^ ^'" "^"'^' ^^^^'^^'"^^ — ^ °f 'f- ^P-ies 

 m Eastern Ausraha and Fasmama, their eggs being more commonly found in August and 

 September on the continent, and in October in Tasmania. 



OenUS CEKOiainSrEIS. Bole. 



Cerchneis cenchroides. 



NANKEEN KESTREL. 



Faico cenchroides, Vig. and Horsf , Trans. Li„n. 80c., Vol. XV., p. 18,3 (182C). 



r....W,....,^,,,,^.,, Gould, Bds.Austr., fol. Vol., pi. 13 (184S) ; i,/., Handbk. Bds. Austr 

 Vol. I., p. 3.") (18G5.) 



(Jerchn,.^ eencJu-oul.s,^...^^ Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 431 (1874); ./., Hand-l. Bds , Vol 

 1., p. lift) (l8'J9). 



.. , ^rZ r;'''r''""'"^'^''^''"'-"*'^^^^-'""^'-.'^«.A-'A--o/-.^,. keadand hind-neck hein, 

 cutred n^Uh bursh-.rey, and haviu, a narrou, black .baft Hue, rbc scapnUrs and i..er,nost .ecndari.. 

 ka.^ny a ^,cdl sa,Utate black >uarH.g towards 0,c ...... ,,.i..aries blackisk-bro.n, notcked nAtk 



nine on ihe.r rnner .oebs,/or Uvo-thirds of their length, the centres of the notches being cd,ni u-ith 

 rufous on the apical half of the feather; the three innermost pri,naries .margined unth pale rufou. 

 a, theu- t.p., beconnng narrower on the neM three on either side, and pas.in, into nMte on. the erircnc 

 rdge ,■ rump, , ,,U-cocerts and tail-feathers blnish-grey, the latter edg.'d unth rufons and tipped 



><^MwhUe and crossed near the extremity by a distinct broad black band, e.cept' on the erte'nal 

 f'ather, where the marking is co.^ined to the inner web; f^ce nMtish. the ear-corerts washed n-ith 

 yrey: a narrow superciliary Une and an obli.ne strrpe on either sule of the throat blackish-,rey all 

 the under surface white, the fore-neck, breast and , flanks with blackish shaft stripes, and fainlU, 

 ..ashed a.th pale r,.fous : under tail and under wing-corerts pure white: bill pale bluish-horn colour, 

 <(arkeratthet.ponhenpper mandible; cere and skin around the eye dull yellow: legs and feet 



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