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Larger ; wing (^ 280, ? 290 mm. ; ^ above 

 tawny rufous, with broad cross-bars of 

 black ; head uniform, but streaked with 

 black ; rump and upper tail-coverts black- 

 ish, barred with fulvous ; tail ashy rufous, 

 banded with black, the subterminal band 

 broad, followed by a white tip ; primaries 

 blackish brown, the inner ones mottled 

 with rufous on inner webs and spotted on 

 outer webs ; below dull tawny rufous, 

 breast streaked with brown, flanks more 

 heavily marked ; under wing-coverts white ; 

 $ similar, but flanks more barred. 



316a. Cerchneis rupicoloides fieldi Elliott, Field 

 Columb. Mus. Pub., No. 1, Orn., p. 58 

 (1897). [Silo Plain, Somaliland.] 

 Somali Kestrel. 



SomaUland. 



Smaller ; much paler above. 



J16b. Cerchneis rupicoloides arthuri (Gurney). 

 List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 156 (1884). 

 [Mombasa.] 

 East African Kestrel. 



E. Africa 



(Kenya Colony). 



Rather darker, tail with narrower black 

 bars, the pale ones more blue grey. 



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317. Cerchneis alopex alopex (Heugl.) Syst. 

 Uebers., p. 10 (1856), and Ibis, 1861, p. 69, 

 pi. iv. [prov. Galabat.] 

 Fox-coloured Kestrel. 



Wing c^ 268 mm. ; plumage above and below 

 fox red ; head narrowly and back and 

 wing-coverts more broadly streaked with 

 black ; the greater wing-coverts with 

 remains of bars ; primaries black, mar- 

 gined and tipped with paler red ; tail 



N.E. Africa 

 (Bogosland to 

 Shoa) ; 



Equat. Africa 

 (Redjaf). 



