152 



307 



Size small ; wing S 9.10-9.70, ? 9.10-9.80 

 in. ; (^ head, hind neck, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and tail blue grey, latter tipped 

 with white and with broad subterminal 

 black band ; rest of upper parts cinnamon 

 rufous, unspotted ; greater wing-coverts 

 and inner secondaries blue grey, shaded 

 with rufous externally ; primaries dark 

 brown ; throat whitish ; chest and breast 

 pale cinnamon, marked with small black 

 spots, larger on the flanks, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts yellowish white ; $ 

 more like that of C. t. tinnuncula, but 

 smaller and distinguished by its white 

 claws. 



Cerchneis naumanni naumanni Fleischer, 

 Sylvan, 1817-18, p. 174 (1818). [5. Germany 

 and Switzerland.'] 

 Lesser Kestrel. 



Mediter- 

 rannean 

 countries, 

 from Spain 

 to S. 

 Russia, 

 also N.W. 

 Africa ; 

 Asia Minor, 

 Cyprus and 

 S.W. Asia; 

 in winter 

 to Africa ; 

 cas. in 

 Central 

 Europe and 

 Brit. Isles. 



307a. 



Size similar ; wing S 9.6 in. ; darker above 

 and below, and without spots below when 

 adult, or with minute spots on sides when 

 less mature ; wing-coverts almost entirely 

 blue-grey, only innermost ones slightly 

 washed with rufous. 



Cerchneis naumanni pekinensis Swinh., 

 P.Z.S., 1870, p. 442. [Pekin.] 

 Chinese Lesser Kestrel. 



N. China ; 

 Himalayas ? 



