313e. 
3136. 
216 
Cerchnets tinnunculus dacotie (Hart.), Vég. 
Pal. Faun., p. 1086 (1913). [Lanzarote.] 
East Canarian Kestrel. 
Wing ¢ 213-225, 2 225-250 mm.; above 
as pale as in C. ¢. tinnunculus ; below deeper 
rusty. 
Cerchneis tinnunculus japonicus (Temm. and 
Schleg.), in Siebold’s Fauna Jap. Aves, p. 2, 
pl. 1, and 1b. (1844). [Japan =near Naga- 
saki.] 
Japanese Kestrel. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 240-247, 9 253-260 mm. ; 
head darker than in C. t¢. tinnunculus ; 
dark spots on mantle larger and with 
broad dark shaft-marks to the feathers ; 
below darker than C. ¢. tinnunculus. 
+*313g. Cerchneis tinnunculus interstinctus McClel- 
313h. 
land, P.Z.S., 1839, p. 154. [Assam.] 
[ =C. tinnunculus saturatus, auct.] 
Himalayan Kestrel. 
Rather smaller; wing ¢ 230-240, tail 152; 
wing 2 240-253 mm.; smaller and much 
darker than C. ¢. tinnunculus ; much deeper 
rufous above and more heavily spotted ; 
head and tail showing a great tendency to 
a rufous wash, and tail more generally 
with remains of black bars even when 
adult ; chest more heavily striped and 
breast with larger spots. 
Cerchneis tinnunculus carlo Hart & Neu- 
mann, J.f.0., 1907, p. 592. [Bissidimo near 
Harrar, type in Tring Mus.] 
Central African Kestrel. 
Smaller than C. ¢. tinnunculus; wing 3 
220-240 mm.; dark form approaching 
interstinctus. 
E. Canary 
Islands 
(Fuertaventura 
Lanzarote.) 
Japan ; 
S. in winter to 
China, Hainan, 
Borneo and 
Philippines. 
Mountains of 
N. India to 
China; in 
winter S. to 
Travancore and 
Malay Penin. ; 
cas. Ceylon (?). 
Mountains of 
Tropical Africa 
(Somaliland, 
Abyssinia, 
Blue Nile, to 
Victoria Nyanza 
& Tanganyika) ; 
S. Arabia. 
