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*313i. Cerchneis tinnunculus rupicolus (Daud.), 

 Traite, ii., p. 135 (1800). [ex Levaill— 

 Cape of Good Hope.] 

 South African Kestrel. 



Scarcely larger than C. t. tinnunculus ; 

 wing ^ 253 mm. ; similar in general 

 colouration, but with sides of face dull 

 blue-grey like head ; $ tail blue-grey 

 banded with black, instead of rufous. 



S. Africa, 

 (Natal, 

 Cape Colony, 

 Damaraland), 

 N. to Angola 

 and Nyasaland. 



*314. Cerchneis moluccensis moluccensis (Hombr. Molucca Is. 

 & Jacq.), Voy. Pole Sud. Zool. Atlas, pi. 1, (Amboyna, 

 f. i. (1842) et texte iii., p. 46 (1853). Bouru, Ceram, 

 [Moluccas (?).] Coram. 



Moluccan Kestrel. Peling Is., 



[C. m. orientalis a sjmonym.] Halmahera, 



Morotai, 

 Smaller ; wing <J 220-233, $ 228-243 mm. ; Ternate, 

 (J above deep bay, with broad arrow-head Batchian). 

 markings of black ; head and hind neck 

 uniform, streaked with black ; rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail bluish grey, 

 latter with broad black subterminal band 

 and white tips ; throat rufous white ; 

 below bay colour, streaked on breast and 

 arrow-headed on flanks with black ; ? 

 more banded above ; tail with extra dark 

 bars, besides the subterminal one. 



Celebes, Borneo, 

 Lesser Sunda Is. 

 from Wetter to 

 Kangean ; 

 Java. ^ 



314a. Cerchneis moluccensis occidentalis (A. B. 

 Meyer & Wiglesw.), Abhandl. Ber. Mus. 

 Dresd., vi.. No. 2, p. 8 (1896). [Celebes.] 

 Javan Kestrel. 



Smaller; wing 3 205-230, ? 228-234, 

 (Celebes) 234 mm. ; paler, with more 

 greyish cheeks and ear-coverts, much 

 whiter under wing-coverts and Ughter 

 underside. 



1 Cerchneis moluccensis microbalia Oberholser, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus., liv., p. 178 

 (1917). [Solombo Besar 7.], is a synonym. 



