320. 
7*321. 
221 
black ; below white, with large oval spots 
of brownish black, smaller and more longi- 
tudinal on flanks ; @ similar. 
Cerchneis avea Oberholser, Pr. Biol. Soc., 
Wash., xxx., p. 75 (1917) ; [nom. nov. pro. 
C. gracilis (Less.) Traité, p. 93 (1831).] 
[Seychelles.] 
Seychelles Kestrel. 
Smaller » wing g 142, 9160 mm. ; g above 
maroon-chestnut, with a few black shaft- 
lines and spots, chiefly on wing-coverts 
and scapulars; rump, upper tail-coverts 
and tail bluish grey, latter with broad 
subterminal and 4 other black bands ; 
head dark bluish grey ; sides of face paler ; 
below isabelline fawn colour, unspotted ; 
2 scarcely differs. 
Cerchneis naumanm naumanni (Fleischer), 
Sylvan, 1817-18, p. 174 (1818). [S. Germany 
and Switzerland, restr. type loc. S. Germany] 
Lesser Kestrel. 
Size small ; wing § 230-245, 2 230-248 mm.; 
6 head, hind neck, rump, upper tail- 
coverts and tail blue grey, latter tipped 
with white and with broad subterminal 
black band ; rest of upper parts cinnamon 
rufous, unspotted; greater wing-coverts 
and inner secondaries blue grey, shaded 
with rufous externally; primaries dark 
brown ; throat whitish ; chest and breast 
pale cinnamon, marked with small black 
spots, larger on the flanks ; abdomen and 
Seychelles Is. 
Mediterranean 
countries, from 
Spain to 
S. Russia,? also 
N.W. Africa ; 
Asia Minor, 
Cyprus ; 
in winter to 
Africa ; cas. in 
Central Europe 
and Brit. Isles. 
1 J have not had an opportunity of examining C. naumanni sarmaticus described 
by Domaniewski (C. R. Soc. Sci. Varsovie, x., p. 1044, 1918, Poland), but it seems 
doubtful if Polish examples can be separated. 
