*313i. 
*314. 
314a. 
217 
Cerchneis tinnunculus rupicolus (Daud.), 
Traité, ii., p. 135 (1800). [ex Levaill.— 
Cape of Good Hope.) 
South African Kestrel. 
Scarcely larger than C. ¢. tinnunculus ; 
wing ¢ 253 mm.; similar in general 
colouration, but with sides of face dull 
blue-grey like head; @ tail blue-grey 
banded with black, instead of rufous. 
Cerchneis moluccensis moluccensis (Hombr. 
& Jacq.), Voy. Pole Sud. Zool. Atlas, pl. 1, 
f. i. (1842) et texte ili, p. 46 (1853). 
[Moluccas (?).] 
Moluccan Kestrel. 
[C. m. orientalis a synonym. 
Smaller ; wing $ 220-233, 2 228-243 mm. ; 
3 above deep bay, with broad arrow-head 
markings of black; head and hind neck 
uniform, streaked with black; rump, 
upper tail-coverts and tail bluish grey, 
latter with broad black subterminal band 
and white tips; throat rufous white ; 
below bay colour, streaked on breast and 
arrow-headed on flanks with black; @ 
more banded above ; tail with extra dark 
bars, besides the subterminal one. 
Cerchneis moluccensis occidentalis (A. B. 
Meyer & Wiglesw.), Abhandl. Ber. Mus. 
Dresd., vi., No. 2, p. 8 (1896). [Celebes.] 
Javan Kestrel. 
Smaller; wing $ 205-230, 2 228-234, 
(Celebes) 234 mm.; paler, with more 
greyish cheeks and ear-coverts, much 
whiter under wing-coverts and lighter 
underside. 
S. Africa, 
(Natal, 
Cape Colony, 
Damaraland), 
N. to Angola 
and Nyasaland. 
Molucca Is. 
(Amboyna, 
Bouru, Ceram, 
Goram. 
Peling Is., 
Halmahera, 
Morotai, 
Ternate, 
Batchian). 
Celebes, Borneo, 
Lesser Sunda Is. 
from Wetter to 
Kangean ; 
Java.? 
1 Cerchneis moluccensis microbalia Oberholser, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus., liv., p. 178 
(1917). 
[Solombo Besar I.], is a synonym. 
