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Larger ; wing <? 280, ? 290 mm. ; <? above 

 tawny rufous, with broad cross-bars of 

 black ; head uniform, but streaked with 

 black ; rump and upper tail-coverts black- 

 ish, barred with fulvous ; tail ashy rufous, 

 banded with black, the subterminal band 

 broad, followed by a white t^p ; primaries 

 blackish brown, the inner ones mottled 

 with rufous on inner webs and spotted on 

 outer webs ; below dull tawny rufous, 

 breast streaked with brown, flanks more 

 heavily marked ; under wing-coverts white ; 

 $ similar, but flanks more barred. 



316a. Cerchneis rupicoloides fieldi Elliott, Field Somaliland. 

 Columb. Mus. Pub., No. 1, Orn., p. 58 

 (1897). [Silo Plain, Somaliland.] 

 Somali Kestrel. 



Smaller ; much paler above. 



316b. Cerchneis rupicoloides arthuri (Gumey). 

 List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 156 (1884). 

 [Mombasa.] 

 East African Kestrel. 



Rather darker, tail with narrower black 

 bars, the pale ones more blue grey. 



E. Africa 

 (Kenya Colony) 



317. Cerchneis alopex alopex (Heugl.) Syst. 

 Uebers., p. 10 (1856), and Ibis, 1861, p. 69, 

 pi. iv. [^rov. Galabat.] 

 Fox-coloured Kestrel. 



Wing <S 268 mm. ; plumage above and below 

 fox red ; head narrowly and back and 

 wing-coverts more broadly streaked with 

 black; the greater wing-coverts with 

 remains of bars ; primaries black, mar- 

 gined and tipped with paler red ; tail 



N.E. Africa 

 (Bogosland to 

 Shoa) ; 



Equat. Africa 

 (Redjaf). 



