231 



Smaller ; wing <^ 210 mm. ; head and neck 

 whitish ashy, with distinct blackish shaft- 

 stripes ; rest of upper parts blackish 

 brown, the primaries darker and banded 

 on inner webs with white ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white, shaded with 

 grey ; tail greyish white, banded with 

 black, the subterminal band broad ; throat 

 whitish ; under parts ashy brown. 



328. Dissodectes zoniventris (Peters), Verhandl. Madagascar. 

 Akad. Wiss. Berl, 1853, p. 783 (1854). 

 [M adagascar .^^ 

 Madagascar Grey Kestrel. 



Wing (J 221 ; $ 230 mm. ; above ashy grey 

 with black shaft-stripes, paler and bluer 

 grey on rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts barred with 

 greyish black ; primaries blackish, barred 

 with rufous or whitish on inner webs ; tail 

 black, all but the 2 central feathers barred 

 with greyish white ; forehead and throat 

 whitish, streaked on throat and barred 

 below with ashy brown. 



Sub. Fam. VIII. PANDIONINJE. 



Gen. XCIX. PANDION Savigny (1809). 

 Type P. fluvialis Sav. =Falco haliaetus L. 



Plumage very close and compact, wanting the 

 accessory plumale ; no facial disc ; eyes placed 

 laterally in the head ; nostrils generally not con- 

 cealed by bristles ; tarsus reticulated ; toes 

 devoid of feathers, the under surface rough, 

 covered with small pointed scales ; the outer 

 toe reversible. Size large (length 20-24 in.). 



