168 



tachial blackish stripes ; below white, 

 upper breast and sides longitudinally 

 marked with rufous brown, lower flanks 

 almost uniform. 



269. Aviceda cuculoides cuculoides Swains., Bds. 

 W. Africa, i., p. 104, pi. 1 (1836). [" W. 

 Africa " =Senegal (on label), type in Camb. 

 Univ. M.US.] 

 W. African Cuckoo- Falcon. 



Smaller ; wing ad. 293 mm. ; above ashy 

 brown ; head, crest and interscapulary 

 region darker, inclining to slaty black ; 

 quills brown above and ashy white below, 

 barred with dark brown on inner webs, the 

 subterminal band broad ; upper tail- 

 coverts tipped and barred with white ; tail 

 ashy grey, tipped with white, with broad 

 subterminal and 3 other bands of black ; 

 throat and chest clear grey ; below buffy 

 white, barred with tawny rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts uniform tawny rufous. 



W. Africa 

 (Senegal to 

 Gold Coast, and 

 inland to 

 N. Nigeria and 

 the Niam-Niam 

 country. 



269a. Aviceda cuculoides batesi (Swann), Syn. List W. Africa 



Accip.,p. 107 (1920). [River Ja, Cametoon (Cameroon to 



type in Brit. Mus., Reg. No. 1911. 5.31.60.] Aruwhimi R., 



Bates's Cuckoo Falcon. Upper Congo). 



Much darker above, uniform slaty black ; 

 throat and chest pale grey, the barrings 

 below confined to upper breast and of a 

 much darker brown colour ; belly, flanks, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts pure white, 

 with little trace of buff ; under wing- 

 coverts uniform rusty rufous. 



269b. Aviceda cuculoides emini (Reichenow), Equatorial 

 J.f.O. 1894, p. 163, footnote. [S.W. of Africa (Ituri 

 Albert Nyanza.] dist. of Belgian 



Congo). 



