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Gens XCV Ue 
Type Falco rupicolus Daud. 
With the general characters of Falco, but wings 
not so long and third primary nearly equal to 
second ; outer and inner toes equal. 
always rufescent ; sexes usually dissimliar). 
(Plumage 
S1ze 
small (length 9.5-15 in.). 
+*313, 
313a. 
Cerchneis tinnunculus tinnunculus (Linn.), 
S.N.,1., p. 90 (1758). [“ Europe ”’ =Sweden.] 
Common Kestrel. 
Size small; wing g 230-250, tail 158-165 
mm.; wing @ 245-260, tail 165-172 mm. ; 
dg above brick-red, with a few arrow-head 
black markings, especially on the inner 
secondaries; head and neck blue-grey, 
with narrow black shaft lines ; primaries 
dark brown, notched with white; lower 
back, rump and tail blue-grey, the tail 
with broad subterminal band of black and 
tipped with white ; 
fawn, chest with black streaks, becoming 
spots on flanks ; thighs rufous buff, throat 
and under tail-coverts buff, unspotted; 9 
above entirely rufous, banded with black, 
with only a bluish shade on rump; tail 
rufous barred with black ; below paler. 
Cerchneis tinnunculus _—_rupicoleformis 
below pale rufous: 
CERCHNEIS Boie (1826). 
Europe, from 
68° N. in 
Scandinavia and 
61° N.in Russia 
to Mediter- 
ranean and 
N.W. Africa ; 
Brit. Isles ; 
W. and C. Asia ; 
in winter to 
Africa. 
Egypt, Nubia ; 
(Brehm), Vogelfang, p. 29 (1855). [ex Wiirt- N. Somaliland ; 
temberg MS.—‘‘ Egypt and Germany ”’ ; 
restricted type loc. Egyt.] 
Egyptian Kestrel. 
Below deeper and warmer than in typical 
form, which it quite equals in size. 
S. Arabia. 
