328. 
231 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 210 mm. ; head and neck 
whitish ashy, with distinct blackish shaft- 
stripes; rest of upper parts blackish 
brown, the primaries darker and banded 
on inner webs with white; rump and 
upper tail-coverts white, shaded with 
grey; tail greyish white, banded with 
black, the subterminal band broad ; throat 
whitish ; under parts ashy brown. 
Dissodectes zoniveniris (Peters), Verhandl. 
Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1853, p. 783 (1854). 
[Madagascar.]| 
Madagascar Grey Kestrel. 
Wing g 221; 9230 mm. ; above ashy grey 
with black shaft-stripes, paler and bluer 
grey on rump and upper tail-coverts ; 
scapulars and wing-coverts barred with 
greyish black ; primaries blackish, barred 
with rufous or whitish on inner webs ; tail 
black, all but the 2 central feathers barred 
with greyish white ; forehead and throat 
whitish, streaked on throat and barred 
below with ashy brown. 
Madagascar. 
Sub. Fam. VIII. PANDIONINE. 
Gen. XCIX. PANDION Savigny (1809). 
Type P. fluvialis Sav. =Falco haliaétus L. 
Plumage very close and compact, wanting the 
accessory plumale; no facial disc; eyes placed 
laterally in the head ; nostrils generally not con- 
cealed by bristles; tarsus reticulated; toes 
devoid of feathers, the under surface rough, 
covered with small pointed scales; the outer 
toe reversible. Size large (length 20-24 in.). 
