230 
*325. Cerchneis sparverioides (Vig.), Zool. Jnl., 
ili., p. 436 (1828). [Cuba.] 
Cuban Kestrel. 
Wing ¢ 184-197, 2 188-192 mm.; head, 
neck, back and wing-coverts slaty blue ; 
with a tinge of rufous on interscapulary 
region ; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 
deep bay, the tail tipped with white and 
with a broad subterminal bar of black; 
throat and sides of face whitish; below 
chestnut fawn, paler on vent, and shaded 
with greyish on flanks, with one or two 
spots of black. 
Cuba; San 
Domingo (?) ; 
cas. Florida (?) 
Gen. XCVIII. DISSODECTES Sclat. (1864). 
Type by subs. desig. (Sharpe, 1874) Falco dickinsoni Sclat. 
With the general characters of Cerchneis but with a 
more or less constant double-toothed mandible, 
and plumage not rufescent; wing with third 
primary longest. 
326. Dissodectes ardosiacus (Bonn. et Vieill.), 
Enc. Meth., Orn., iii., p. 1238 (1823). 
[Senegal.] 
Slate-coloured Kestrel. 
Wing 3 225 mm. ; general plumage slaty 
grey (paler below) with dark shaft-lines to 
the feathers; tail with whitish bands on 
inner webs; throat and sides of face 
whitish. 
327. Dissodectes dickinsoni Sclat., P.Z.S., 1864, 
p. 248. [Shiré River.) 
Dickinson’s Kestrel. 
W. Africa 
(Senegambia to 
Angola) ; 
Equatorial 
Africa (Uganda 
to Egypt. Sudan 
and Abyssinia). 
Portuguese 
E. Africa, 
Nyasaland, 
Angola. 
