Order FALCONIFORMES 
No. 314. 
Family FALCON ID JS. 
CEROHNEIS CENOHROIDES. 
NANKEEN KESTREL. 
(Plates 257 and 258.) ♦ 
Falco cencheoides Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XV., p. 183, 
1827 : Australia = Parramatta, New South Wales. 
Parametta Falcon, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. I., p. 225, 1821. 
Falco cenchroides Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 183, 1827. 
Tinnunculus cenchroides Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 21, 1844 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 13, 1848 ; Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 14, 1849 ; 
Zuchold, Joum. f. Om. 1858, p. 35 (Q.) ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 35, 1865 ; Biggies, Om. Austr., pt. vm., 1866 (Q.) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Accip., 
p. 60, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Gumey, Ibis 
1881, p. 469 ; id., List Biurn. Birds Prey, p. 98, 1884 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. L, 1886, p. 1096, 1887 (N.-W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. II., p. 166, 
1887 (N.-W.A.) ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; id., Suppl. Cat. Austr. 
Accip., p. 9, 1890 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 22, 1890 ; id., ib.. No. 4, 
p, 67, 1898. 
Cerchneis immaculata Brehm, Isis 1845, p. 357 : Australia ; New South Wales. 
Cerchneis cenchroides Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 431, 1874 ; Legge, Papers 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tas.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 3, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 38, 1901 ; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 11, 1902 (Viet.) ; Le Souef, ib., p. 141, 1903 (N.T.) ; 
Hill, ib., p. 161, 1903 (Viet.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 205, 1903 (King 1.) ; Carter, 
ib., Vol. III., p. 34, 1903 (M.-W.A.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 209,' 1905 
(N.T.) ; B’Ombrain, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 125, 1905 (Viet.) ; Lawson, ib., p. 133, 
1905 (W.A.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 19, 1905 (Q.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 3, 
1907 (Viet.) ; HaU, ib., p. 26, 1907 (N.-W.A.) ; Austin, ib., p. 28, 1907 (N.S.W.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 42, 1908 ; Burrell, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 95, 
1908 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., p. 5, 1909 (N.-W.A.) ; Gibson, ib., p. 72, 
1909 (S.-W.A.) ; Crossman, ib., p. 86, 1909 (W.A.) ; HaU, ib., p. 126, 1910 (S.A.) ; 
Whitlock, ib., p. 191, 1910 (W.A.) ; Howe, ib., p. 229, 1910 (Viet.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Ibis 1910, p. 167 (W.A.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 9, 1910 (Tas.) ; HiU, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 267, 1911 (N.-W.A.) ; Stone, ib., Vol. XII., p. 113, 1912 (Viet.) ; 
* The Plates are lettered Cerchneis cenchroides and C. unicolor. 
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