150 



302. Cerchneis rupicoloides rupicoloides Smith, 

 S. Afr. Q. Jnl., i., p. 238 (1830). [Groene 

 River, Little Namaqualand, type in Brit. 

 Mus.] 

 Larger African Kestrel. 



South 

 Africa. 



Smaller, much paler above. 

 302a. Cerchneis rupicoloides fieldi Elliott, Field Somaliland. 

 Columb. Mus. No. 2 Orn., p. 58 (1897). 

 {Somaliland.'] 

 Somali Kestrel. 



Rather darker, tail with narrower black 

 bars, the pale ones more blue grey. 

 302b. Cerchneis rupicoloides arthuri (Gurney). Brit. E. 

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

 [Mombasa.'] 

 East African Kestrel. 



Wing c^ 10.6 in. ; 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 

 darker red, with about 15 bars of black ; 

 throat unmarked, but rest of under surface 

 with narrow central streaks of black. 

 303. Cerchneis alopex alopex (Heugl.) Syst. 

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

 pi. iv. {prov. Galahat.] 

 Fox-coloured Kestrel. 



303a. Cerchneis alopex deserticola Reichenow, 

 Orn. M.B., vii., p. 190 (1899). [Mangu, 

 Togo Hinterland.] 

 Desert Kestrel. 



N. E. 



Africa, 



(Bogosland 



to Shoa) ; 



Equat. 



Africa 



(Redjaf). 



Togo Hin- 

 terland ; 

 Gold Coast 

 Hinter- 

 land? 



