230 



*325. Cerchneis sparverioides (Vig.), Zool. Jnl., 

 iii., p. 436 (1828). [Cuba.] 

 Cuban Kestrel. 



Wing (? 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. 



Cuba ; San 

 Domingo (?) ; 

 cas. Florida (?) 



Gen. XCVIII. DISSODECTES Sclat. (1864). 

 Tjrpe 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 (J 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. 248. [Shire River.] 

 Dickinson's Kestrel. 



P.Z.S., 1864. 



Portuguese 

 E. Africa, 

 Nyasaland, 

 Angola. 



