104 FALCONID^. 



Breeds all over temperate and warmer Europe and Western 

 Asia, migrating in winter into Africa down to Damara Land. 

 Is an occasional visitor to England, rarer in Scotland and 

 Ireland. 



Tinnunculus alaudarius. Kesteel. 



Falco alaudarius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 279 (1788). 

 Palco Tinnunculus, Linmsus, S. N. i. p. 127 (1766). 



Palco tinnunculus, Naum. i. p. 323 ; Macg. iii. p. 325 ; 



Hewitson, p. 32 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 57j id. ed. 3, i. p. 64 ; 



Newton, i. p. 78; Harting, p. 4; Dresser, vi. p. 113. 

 Tinnunculus alaudarius. Gray, p. 13; Gould, i. pi. 21. 

 Kestrel, or Windhover, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 52. 



Alaudarius = preying upon Larks {alaudce). 



Found throughout the Palsearctic Region, British India, 

 and Africa ; is a permanent resident in Great Britain and 

 Ireland. 



Tinnunculus cenchris. Lesser Kestrel. 



Falco cenchris, Naumann,^'6g. Deutsch. i. p. 318 (1822) . 



Falco cenchris, Naum. i. p. 318; [Newton, i. p. 82] ; Dresser, 

 vi. p. 125. 



Cenchris, 11 kind of Hawk in Pliny ; xeyxp's is cognate with Kepxvtl and 

 KepxvriU, from an onomatopoeic root denoting a hoarse sound. 



The reported occurrence of a specimen near Cambridge has 

 been disproved; but one was obtained near York (W. Eagle 

 Clarke, ' Yorksh. Yertebrata,' p. 48) ; a third is said to have 

 been taken alive near Dover (Zoologist, 1877, p. 298). It 

 breeds in Southern Europe, but rarely strays north ; yet it 

 has occurred in Heligoland. It extends to South Africa in 

 winter. 



Genus PANDION, Savigny, Syst. Ois. de I'Egypte, p. 36 



(1810). 



Pandion, a mythical king of Athens, father of Proone and Philomela ; from 

 Tras = all, and Sios = divine. 



