196 



lete ; 9 above dark brown, tail with 5 

 narrow pale bands ; below dull white 

 streaked with brown. 



f299e. Falco columharius alfred-edmundi, Klein- Iceland. 

 Schmidt, Falco, xiii., p. 9 (1917). [Iceland.] 

 Iceland MerUn. 



Much darker race. 



299f. Falco columharius 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 {Fusan, Korea.'] 

 Asiatic Merlin. 



tnsigms 

 xxxii., p. 



(Clark), Pr. 

 470 (1907). 



Size similar ; wing (^ 197-205 mm. ; (^ 

 above lighter grey ; $ above paler brown ; 

 much less heavily striped below. 



Asia ; Turkestan 

 to China, Japan 

 and Ussuriland ; 

 in winter to 

 Cyprus, Egypt, 

 Sjoia, India, 

 S. China. 



*299g. Falco columharius christiani-ludovici Klein- 

 schmidt, Falco, xiii., p. 10 (1917). [Cauca- 

 sus, type in Kleinschmidt's Coll.] New 

 name for F. c. pallidus (Suschk.), pre- 

 occupied. 

 PalHd Merhn. 



Caucasus and 

 Kirghissteppe ; 

 in winter to 

 Turkestan and 

 N.W. India. 



Slightly larger ; wing ^ 209 mm. ; above 

 still paler grey and below with smaller 

 and paler stripes ; $ paler generally. 



299h. Falco columharius lymani Bangs, Bull. 

 M.C.Z., liv.. No. 16, p. 465 (1912). [Tsche- 

 gan-Burgazi Pass, Altai Alins.] 

 Altai Merhn. 



Larger than F. c. insignis ; wing S 225, 

 $ 248 mm. ; similar in plumage. 



E. Asia, 

 (Altai Mtns.). 



