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Montana and North Dakota; winters south to southern Lower California, 
northwestern Mexico, and southern Texas; casual in California and Missouri; 
accidental in South Carolina. 
[Falco @salon TUNSTALL. Merlin. [358.1.] 
Falco esalon TUNSTALL, Orn. Brit., 1771, i. (Great Britain.) 
Rance.— Europe, Asia, and northern Africa; accidental in Green- 
land.] 
Suscenus RHYNCHOFALCO Rineway. 
Rhynchofalco Ripaway, Proce. Bost. Soc. N. H., XVI, 1873, 46. Type, 
by orig. desig., Falco femoralis TemmMinck = Falco fusco-cerulescens 
VIEILLOT. 
Falco fisco-ceruléscens ViriLLoT. Aplomado Falcon. [359.] 
Falco fusco-cerulescens Viettuot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XI, 1817, 90. 
(Paraguay.) 
Ranar.— Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Texas south through 
Central America to Patagonia. 
Suspcenus CERCHNEIS Bolter. 
Cerchneis Bork, Isis, XTX, 1826, 970. Type, by monotypy, Falco rupi- 
colus DAUDIN. 
[Falco tinnénculus Linnmus. Kestrel. [359.1.] 
Falco tinnunculus Linnxxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. (Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in 
Greenland (Cape Farewell).] 
Falco sparvérius LINN Us. 
RancE.— North and South America. 
a. Falco sparverius sparverius LINNa=us. Sparrow Hawk. ([360.] 
Falco sparverius Linnamus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Breeds from the 
Upper Yukon, northwestern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and Newfound- 
