218 
7*315. Cerchnets cenchroides cenchroides (Vig. and 
Horsf.), Trans. Linn. Soc., xv., p. 183 
(1827). [Australia = Paramatta, N.S. 
Wales, apud Math.] 
Nankeen Kestrel. 
Size similar ; wing ¢ 235-250, 2 260 mm. ; 
3 above pale rufous, almost unspotted ; 
head washed with pale bluish grey, and 
with black shaft-lines; rump and tail 
coverts blue-grey, as also the tail in oldest 
birds, the latter with broad subterminal 
black band and white tips; sides of face 
greyish white; below buffish white, the 
chest tawny buff, that and sides with black 
shaft-stripes ; under wing-coverts white ; 
2 head and tail like back, the tail usually 
barred with black. 
315a. Cerchneis cenchroides milligamt Math., Nov. 
Zool., xvill., p. 253 (1912). [Parry’s Creek, 
N.W. Australia.) 
Dusky Nankeen Kestrel. 
Smaller; wing ¢ 225-235 mm.; darker 
above. 
315b. Cerchneis cenchroides wunicolor Milligan, 
Emu, iv., p. 1 (1904). [Yalgoo.] 
Westralian Nankeen Kestrel. 
Smaller ; below darker, decided cinnamon 
pink ; tail rusty cinnamon. 
+*316. Cerchneis rupicoloides rupicoloides (Smith), 
S. Afr. Q. Jnl., i., p. 238 (1830). [Groene 
River, Little Namaqualand, type in Brit. 
Mus.] 
Larger African Kestrel. 
East Australia. 
N.W. Australia, 
Northern 
Territory. 
S.W. and Mid. 
W. Australia. 
South Africa, 
S. of Zambesi. 
