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[Falco] alaudarius Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 279 (Europe and Siberia; 

 based on L'Epervier des Alouettes Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 279). 



Tinnunculus alaudarius Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 21; Haud-list, i, 1869, 22, No, 

 203, part. — Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 27. — Kaup, Jardiue's 

 Contr. Orn., 1850, 53.— Gould, Birds Great Brit., ii, 1862, pi. 21 and text. — 

 Pelzeln, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xiii, 1863, 622 (synonymy; range). — Newton, 

 Ootheca Wolleyana, 1864, 80; Man. Nat. Hist. Greenland, 1875, 96 (off Cape 

 Farewell, Greenland). — Moore, Ibis, 1865, 10 (Great Britain). — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1865, 259 (Palestine; common). — FiNscn, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1870, 205 (Abyssinia).— Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, 486 (Connors Hill, Gold Coast).— 

 GuBNEY, Ibis, 1881, 456-459 (crit.); List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 96, part; 

 Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 27.— (?) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, 99 (Kandahar, s. 

 Afghanistan; habits). — Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, 25 (Corsica; descr. nest and 

 eggs).— Reid, Ibis, 1885, 249 (Morocco).- Witherby, Ibis, 1903, 561 (Pars, 

 sw. Persia). 



[Falco (Tinnunculus) alaudarius] a. var. alaudarius Ridgway, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xvi, 1873, 47, part (Europe). 



Falco badius (not of Gmelin, 1788) Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl., iii, 



1793, 748 (Thiiringen, Germany). 



Falco albicans Siemssen, Handb. Syst. Kennt. Meckl-Laud. und Wasser-vog., 



1794, 20 ("Rostocker region"). 



Falco brunneus Bechstein, Lathams Alg. Uebers-Vog., i, 1793, 679, pi. 2 (Thiir- 

 ingen, Germany). 



Falco fasciatus Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1800, 70 ("Scania"). 



Cerchneis fasciata Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 269. 



Cerchneis murum Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 70 (Feldholzer Mountains). 



Cerchneis media Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 70 (Germany). 



Falco architinnunculus Brehm, Ornis, iii, 1827, 10 (Germany). 



Falco interstinctus McClelland, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1840, 154 (Assam). 



Cerchneis taeniura Brehm, Vogelfang, 1855, 28 (GermanjO- 



Cerchneis ivtercedens Brehm, Vogelfang, 1855, 29 (Germany; rare). 



Cerchneis accedens Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 269 (nomen nudum). 



Cerchneis guttata Brehm, Vogelfang, 1855, 29 (Egypt; rare in Germany). 



Tinnuncidus alaudarius minor Brehm, Verz.-Samml., 1866, 1 (nomen nudum). 



Tinnunculus alaudarius anceps Brehm, Verz.-Samml., 1866, 1 (nomen nudum). 



Tinnunculus alaudarius longicaudus Brehm, Verz.-Samml., 1866, 1 (nomen 

 nudum) . 



Tinnunculus alaudarius pallidus Brehm, Verz.-Samml., 1866, 1 (nomen nudum). 



Tinnunculu., alaudarius ambiguus Brehm, Verz.-Samml., 1866, 1 (nomen nudum). 



Cerchneis perpallida Clark, Prov. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 1907, 470 (Fusan, 

 Korea) . 



Tinnuncidus minutus Millet-Horsin, Rev. Fran?. Orn., ii, 1912, 269 (Medenine, 

 Tunisia) . 



Falco Tinnunculus uUratinnunculus Kleinschmidt, Falco, xxv, 1929, 35 (Wladi- 

 kaukas, n. Caucasus). 



FALCO SPAEVERIUS SPARVERIUS Linnaeus 



Northern Sparrow Hawk 



Advlt ma^e.— Forehead (narrow) and lores white; crown and occi- 

 put slate-gray to slate with a somewhat variable but usually fairly 

 extensive (but sometimes almost wanting) patch of mikado brown to 



