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f*315. Cerchneis cenchroides cenchroides (Vig. and 

 Horsf.), Trans. Linn. Soc, xv., p. 183 

 (1827). [Australia = Paramatta, N.S. 

 Wales, apud Math.] 

 Nankeen Kestrel. 



East Australia. 



Size similar ; wing (? 235-250, $ 260 mm. ; 

 (J above pale rufous, almost unspotted ; 

 head washed with pale bluish grey, and 

 with black shaft-lines ; rump and tail 

 coverts blue-grey, as also the tail in oldest 

 birds, the latter with broad subterminal 

 black band and white tips ; sides of face 

 greyish white ; below huffish white, the 

 chest tawny buff, that and sides with black 

 shaft-stripes ; under wing-coverts white ; 

 ? head and tail like back, the tail usually 

 barred with black. 



315a. Cerchneis cenchroides milligani Math., Nov. N.W. Australia, 



ZooL, xviii., p. 253 (1912). [Parry's Creek, Northern 



N.W. Australia.] Territory. 

 Dusky Nankeen Kestrel. 



Smaller ; wing c? 225-235 mm. ; darker 

 above. 



315b. Cerchneis cenchroides unicolor Milligan, S.W. and Mid. 

 Emu, iv., p. 1 (1904). [Yalgoo.] W. Australia. 



Westralian Nankeen Kestrel. 



Smaller ; below darker, decided cinnamon 

 pink ; tail rusty cinnamon. 



1*316. Cerchneis rupicoloides rupicoloides (Smith), 

 S. Afr. Q. Jul, i., p. 238 (1830). [Greene 

 River, Little Namaqualand, type in Brit. 

 Mus.] 

 Larger African Kestrel. 



South Africa, 

 S. of Zambesi 



