TINNUNCULUS CINNAMOMINUS 19 



TINNUNCULUS CINNAMOMINUS (Swainson) 



Cernicalo, Azara, Pdxaros, Paraguay y La Plata, i, p. 182, 1802. 

 FalcO SparveriuS, B'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois., p. 119, 1835. 

 FalcO cinnamominUS, Swainson, Animals in Menageries, p. 281, 



1837. 

 TinnunCUlUS SparveriUS, Gould and Darwin, Voy. ^'Beagle,'" 



Birds, p. 29, 1841 ; Durnford, Ibis, p. 39, 1877 ; Oustalet, Miss. Sci. Cap 



Horn, Ois., p. 37, 1891. 

 CerchneiS Cinnamoniina, Sharpe, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, p. 439, 



1874. 

 TinnunCUluS CinnamomiimS, Sdater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., 



ii, p. 69, 1889. 



Habitat — South. America. 



? , Cheena Creek, 29th Jan. ; c? c?> Rio McClelland Settlement, 10th Feb., 

 1905. 



Iris — dark brown ; bill — grey, nostrils and eyelids — yellow ; legs — pale 

 orange. 



The Cinnamon Kestrel is recorded by the majority of 

 expeditions to these regions. Darwin met with it in Peru and 

 Patagonia. It is not common. During my first five months, 

 embracing mid -summer, I saw three. In my last month — that 

 is between January and February — I saw four or five. I believe 

 it to be a migrant arriving towards the end of summer, though 

 a certain number remain throughout the year. Like the Orange- 

 chested Hobby, it frequents open scrub-covered country. 



In the winter this Kestrel occasionally takes up its abode in 

 settlements, even in buildings tenanted by man. At Cheena 

 Creek, I was shown traces of where one had roosted in the 

 verandah of the manager's house. Another roosted in the sheep- 

 dip shed at Useless Bay Settlement. I was never able to shoot 

 one. All I saw were flying wide of me, skimming the ground, 

 except once at Crooked Creek, when I had no gun, and a pair let 

 me ride close by them as they sat on a barberry thornbush. 



For two of my three examples I am indebted to Mr. Clarke, 

 who shot them just in time for me to take them on board the 



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