161 



311. 



Wing c? 11-1.25, 9 7.40-7.55 in. ; head, 

 neck, back and wing-coverts slaty blue ; 

 with a tinge of rufous on interscapulary 

 region ; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 

 deep bay, the tail tipped with white and 

 with a broad subterminal bar of black ; 

 throat and sides of face whitish ; below 

 chestnut-fawn, paler on vent, and shaded 

 with grejdsh on flanks, with one or two 

 spots of black. 



Cerchneis sparverioides Vig., Zool. Jnl., iii., 

 p. 436 (1828). [Ciihal 

 Cuban Kestrel. 



Cuba ; cas. 

 Florida ? 



Gen. LXXXVII. DISSODECTES Sclat. (1864). 



With the characters of Cerchneis but with a more 

 or less constant double-toothed mandible, and 

 plumage not rufescent. 



Wing (^ 8.9 ; general plumage slaty grey 

 (paler below) with dark shaft-lines to the 

 feathers ; tail with whitish bands on 

 inner webs ; throat and sides of face 

 whitish. 

 312. Dissodectcs ardosiacus Bonn, et Viell., Enc. 

 Meth., iii., p. 1238 (1823). {Senegal] 

 Slate-coloured Kestrel. 



Smaller ; wing ^ 8.3 ; 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. 



W. Africa 

 (Sene- 

 gambia to 

 Angola) ; 

 N.E. 

 Africa, 

 Equatorial 

 Africa. 



