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CATALOGUE. 
an extremely common bird, frequenting the open plains and bare 
rocky hills. Its chief food is lizards, large insects, and occasionally 
young birds. The male is occasionally as large as the female," — (Jerd. 
Madr. J. L. S. X. p. 82.) Mr. Blyth has found this bird " very 
common in Lower Bengal, where he has frequently seen them in 
parties of twenty or thirty hunting over the cultivated lands. It 
breeds in April, in lofty trees, and also on the tops of minarets." — 
(Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 15.) 
12. TINNUNCULUS CENCHRIS, Naumann Sp. 
Falco cenchris, Naum., Voeg. Deutschl. t. 29. Gould, 
Birds of Eur. t. 2d. 
Tinnunculus cenchris, Q. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, l.p. 21 ; 
Cat, B. Brit. Mus. p. 60. Blgth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. 
Beng. p. 16. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 27. 
Falco tinnunculoides, /S'c^jW. Temm.,Man.l.p.^l. Sforr, 
Vcc. t. 25. 
Falco xanthonyx, Natterer. 
Falco Naumanni, Fleischer. 
Falco gracilis. Less., Tr. d'Orn.p. 93. 
Falco cyannellus, Br. F. (B.) Hamilt., MS. p. 55. 
The lesser Kestril. 
a. N. India. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
b. Drawing. From Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton's Collection. 
Genus Erythropus, Brehm., Isis (1828), p. 1270. 
Pantchistes, Kaup, Nat. Syst. p. 57 (1829). 
TiNNUNCtJLrs, p. Gray. 
13. EBYTHBOPUS VESPERTINUS, Linn. Sp. 
Falco vespertinus. Linn. S. N. 1. p. 129. Lath., Hist. 
l.p. 122. PI. Enl 431. 
Erythropus vespertinus, Brehm., Voeg. Deutschl. l.p. 76. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 26. 
Tinnunculus vespertinus, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 1. 
p. 21; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 60. Hodgs., Cat. 
B. Nep. p. 45. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 16. 
