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shape, and a few specimens are slightly glossy. They are typically 

 speckled and spotted, and but seldom blotched. The ground is 

 generally cream-colour, and the markings are reddish brown, 

 yellowish brown, or umber-brown in different combinations. On 

 the whole the eggs of this Kestrel are dingy in colour. They 

 measure from T25 to 1*4 in length, and from 1 to 1-1 in breadth. 



1. North America. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Rocky Mountains. Gould Coll. 



5. Princeton, New Jersey, 28th April Princeton University [E.]. 



(W.E.D. Scott). 



3. Princeton, 13th May ( W. E. D. S.}. Princeton University [E.]. 



3. Miami, Florida (Henshaiv Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 1. St. Croix, West Indies (A. fy E. Crowley Bequest. 



Newton). 



1. Great Fountain, St. Croix. May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. $ E. N.). 



Cerchneis cinnamomina (Swains.). 

 (Plate XV. figs. 4 & 5.) 



Cerchneis cinnamomina, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. \. p. 439 (1874) ; 



id. Hand-l. i. p. 278 (1899) : Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 10 (1899). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius, Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 541. 

 Tinnunculus einnamominus, Scl. # Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 69 (1889); 



James, New List Chilian Birds, p. 7 (1892) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. 



Paulista, iv. p. 272 (1900). 



The eggs of the Cinnamon Kestrel in the Collection are mostly 

 very similar to those of C. sparveria. Three specimens, however, 

 are peculiar. They are pale rufous or brownish orange, speckled 

 with two shades of dark brown. Eleven examples measure from 

 1-32 to 144 in length, and from !! to 1*17 in breadth. 



4. Santa Elena, Antioquia, U.S. Co- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



lombia (T. K. Salmon). 



6. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



1. Argentine Republic. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ERYTHKOPUS, Brehm. 

 Erythropus vespertinus (Linn.). 



Falco vespertinus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. lii. fig. 1, a-d (1845- 

 54) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 93 (1871) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. 

 p. 42, pi. 4 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 7, pi. 4. fig. 10 (1896). 



Erythropus vespertinus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 10. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 278 (1899). 



Cerchneis vespertina, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 443 (1874). 



The eggs of the Red-legged Kestrel are quite similar to those of 

 Cerchneis tinnunculus, but are smaller. They measure from 1-32 

 to 1'54 in length, and from !! to 1'25 in breadth. 



