316a. 
316b. 
219 
Larger ; wing g 280, 2 290 mm.; g 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 ; 
9 similar, but flanks more barred. 
Cerchnets rupicoloides fieldi Elliott, Field 
Columb. Mus. Pub., No. I, Orn., ‘p: 58 
(1897). [Silo Plain, Somaliland.] 
Somali Kestrel. 
Smaller ; much paler above. 
Cerchnets rupicoloides arthurt (Gurney). 
Mist Wiurm. (Bds. Prey, p. 156 (1884). 
[Mombasa. | 
Fast African Kestrel. 
Rather darker, tail with narrower black 
bars, the pale ones more blue grey. 
Cerchneis alopex alopex (Heugl.) Syst. 
Uebers., p. 10 (1856), and Ibis, 1861, p. 69, 
pl. iv. [prov. Galabat.] 
Fox-coloured Kestrel. 
Wing $ 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 
Somaliland. 
FE. Ainica 
(Kenya Colony). 
N.E. Africa 
(Bogosland to 
Shoa) ; 
Equat. Africa 
(Redjaf). 
