230 



*325. Cerchneis sparverioides (Vig.), Zool. Jnl., Cuba ; San 

 iii., p. 436 (1828). [Cuba.] Domingo (?) ; 



Cuban Kestrel. cas. Florida (?) 



Wing cJ 184-197, ? 188-192 mm. ; head, 

 neck, back and wing-coverts slaty blue ; 

 with a tinge of rufous on interscapulary 

 region ; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 

 deep bay, the tail tipped with white and 

 with a broad subterminal bar of black ; 

 throat and sides of face whitish ; below 

 chestnut fawn, paler on vent, and shaded 

 with greyish on flanks, with one or two 

 spots of black. 



Gen. XCVIII. DISSODECTES Sclat. (1864). 

 Type by subs, desig. (Sharpe, 1874) Falco dickinsoni Sclat. 



With the general characters of Cerchneis but with a 

 more or less constant double-toothed mandible, 

 and plumage not rufescent ; wing with third 

 primary longest. 



326. Dissodectes ardosiacus (Bonn, et Vieill.), 

 Enc. Meth., Orn., iii., p. 1238 (1823). 

 [Senegal.'] 

 Slate-coloured Kestrel. 



Wing $ 225 mm. ; general plumage slaty 

 grey (paler below) with dark shaft-lines to 

 the feathers ; tail with whitish bands on 

 inner webs ; throat and sides of face 

 whitish. 



W. Africa 

 (Senegambia to 

 Angola) ; 

 Equatorial 

 Africa (Uganda 

 to Egypt. Sudan 

 and Abyssinia). 



327. Dissodectes dickinsoni Sclat., P.Z.S., 1864, Portuguese 

 p. 248. [Shire River.] E. Africa, 



Dickinson's Kestrel. Nyasaland, 



Angola. 



