317a. 
318. 
319. 
220 
darker red, with about 15 bars of black; 
throat unmarked, but rest of under surface 
with narrow central streaks of black. 
Cerchneis alopex eremica Oberholser Pr. 
Biol. Soc. Wash., xxx., p. 76 (1917) nom. 
nov. pro. C. a. deserticola Reichenow, Orn. 
M.B., vii., p. 190 (1899). [Mangu, Togo 
Hinterland.) 
Desert Kestrel. 
Paler below than typical form. 
Cerchneis newtoni (Gurney), Ibis, 1863, p. 34 
pl. 2. [Madagascar.] 
Madagascar Kestrel. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 188, 2208 mm. ; gabove, 
light rufous, streaked on head and neck 
and arrow-headed on scapulars and wing- 
coverts with black ; rump and upper tail- 
coverts dark bluish grey with more or less 
of black arrow-head markings ; tail bluish 
grey banded with black, subterminal band 
very broad; forehead, sides of head and 
under parts creamy white, tinged with 
rufous on chest, with elongated black spots, 
becoming more oval on breast and flanks ; 
under wing-coverts white, streaked with 
black ; @ similar. 
Cerchneis punctatus (Temm.), Pl. Col., i., 
livr. 8, pl. 45 (1823). [Isle de France.] 
Mauritius Kestrel. 
Size similar; wing ¢ 178, 9 192 mm. ; 
above dull foxy rufous, with rather broad 
bars of black; head with blackish shaft- 
stripes; tail deep bay, with 6 bands of 
Togo Hinter- 
land ; 
Gold Coast 
Hinterland. 
Madagascar ; 
Comoro Is., 
Aldebra I. 
Mauritius. 
