20O MERLIN. Class II. 



6^. Mfr- L'Efmerillon. Belon av. ii8. L'Emerillon. BriJJhn av, I. 



LIN.* ^falon. Ge/ner a<v. 44. 382. 



Merlina. Turneri. Smerlio, o Smeriglio. Lorenzi 



Smerlus, Smerillus. Jldr. a^v, a-u. tab, 18. 19. 



I. 187. Br. Zool. 70. plate A. 12. 



ini. orn. 85. PL Enl 468. 



Raiijyn.aru. 15. Hiji. D'Oys. i. 288. 



Descrip. fTTAHE Merlin weighs near five ounces and a 

 JL half: its length is twelve inches its breadth 

 twenty five. The bill is of a bluifh lead color : the 

 cere of a lemon color : the irides very dark, almoft 

 black : the head is ferruginous, and each feather is 

 marked with a bluifh black flreak along the fhaft : 

 the back and wings are of a deep bluifli afh color, 

 adorned with ferruginous flreaks and fpots, and 

 edged with the fame : the quil feathers are almoft 

 black, marked with reddifh oval fpots : the under 

 coverts of the wings brown, beautifully marked 

 with round white fpots : the tail is five inches 

 long, crofTed with alternate bars of du/l^y and red- 

 difh clay color ; on fome of the feathers of the 

 fame bird are thirteen, on fome fifteen, but in one 

 bird I examined, were no more than eight: the 

 bread and belly are of a yellowifh white, marked 

 with oblong brown fpots pointing downwards : 

 the legs yellow : the wings when clofed reach within 

 Manners, an inch and a half of the end of the tail. This and 



* Merularius ; quia merulas infedatur. Skinner, 



the 



