. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PALOONID^ TINNUNCULUS 277 Tinnunoulus rupicolus, Ourney, Ibis, 1859, p. 240 [Natal]; P. L. Solater, Proa. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 22 [Windvogelberg]; Laya/rd, B. -S. Afr. p. 22 (1867); Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 18 (1872); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 860 [Tugela river] ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 66 [Pinetown] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 341 [Potchefstroom] ; Qumey, Ibis, 1881, p. 465 ; Holub and Pelzeln, Orn. Sild-Afr. p. 29 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239 [Spaldings]; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 326 [Kroonstad] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 146 (1896); Woodwa/r
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PALOONID^ TINNUNCULUS 277 Tinnunoulus rupicolus, Ourney, Ibis, 1859, p. 240 [Natal]; P. L. Solater, Proa. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 22 [Windvogelberg]; Laya/rd, B. -S. Afr. p. 22 (1867); Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 18 (1872); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 860 [Tugela river] ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 66 [Pinetown] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 341 [Potchefstroom] ; Qumey, Ibis, 1881, p. 465 ; Holub and Pelzeln, Orn. Sild-Afr. p. 29 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239 [Spaldings]; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 326 [Kroonstad] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 146 (1896); Woodwa/rd Bros. Ibis, 1898, p. 220 [Zululand] ; Haagner, Ibis, 1901, p. 193 [near Johannesburg]. Cerchneis rupicola, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 429 (1874); id. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 580, pi. 68 ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 62, 800 (1875-84): Oates, Matabeleland, p. 299 (1881) [Newcastle, Natal]; Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 394 ; Sowetby, Ibis, 1898, p. 575 [near Salisbury] ; Woodivard Bros. Natal B. p. 152 (1899) ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 640 (1901). " Eoodevalk," " Eooivallf," or " Steenvalk" of Fig. 91.—Tinnunoulus rupicoltis. x j^. Description.—Crown, nape, and sides of the head dull slate narrowly streaked with black; back, scapulars and wing-coverts chestnut with a few diamond-shaped spots of dark brown; wing- quills and greater coverts dark brown, tjie former barred on their inner webs with white; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers slaty- grey, the latter with a broad subterminal band of black and white tips, all except the two centre feathers narrowly barred with black on the inner web only; below, chestnut becoming much paler on the throat and under tail-coverts, the upper breast with longitudinal, the lower with diamond-shaped black spots, thighs and under tail- coverts unspotted ; under wing-coverts white with a few black spots. Iris dark brown; bill bluish-black, darkest at the tip; cere and orbits yellow ; legs ochre-yellow ;
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