299c. 
195 
obsolete, and tipped with white; below 
buffy white, striped with pale brown, 
broadest on the flanks; thighs buffish white, 
with blackish shaft-lines; 9 above lght 
brown, instead of blackish brown; below 
striped pale brown instead of blackish 
brown. 
Falco columbarius bendiret Swann, Bull. 
BIO C2 lites p66, (1922)2 “For Walla 
Walla, Washington Terr., Oct. 18, 1881, 
Capt. Bendire, type in M.C.Z., Harvard, 
No. 76877. | 
Californian Merlin. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 186-200, 2 202-218 mm. ; 
¢ above darker slate than F. c. richardsont, 
but lighter than F. c. columbarius ; tail 
black, with 3 bands of greyish white and 
white tips; below as dark and heavily 
striped as fF’. c. columbarius ; thighs rufous 
buff, much darker than in F’.c. richardson ; 
2 similar to that of F. c. richardsoni above, 
but a shade darker brown ; below as dark 
as F. c. columbarius. 
7*299d. Falco columbarius regulus+ Pallas, Reise d. 
Versuch. Prov. d. Ross. Reichs, ii., p. 707 
(1773). [Siberia =W. Siberia}. 
Common Merlin. 
Wing ¢ 195-203, 9 215-224 mm.; ¢ above 
rather darker slate blue than in No. 299, 
with the black shaft-lines; below rather 
more rufous ; tail slaty blue, tipped with 
white and with broad subterminal black 
band, the other black bands nearly obso- 
California, N. 
through Oregon, 
Idaho and 
Washington to 
EY But 
Columbia and 
Alberta ; 
in winter S. to 
Lower Califor- 
nia. 
N. Europe to 
Brit. Isles, 
Central Russia 
and W. Siberia ; 
in winter S. to 
N. Africa. 
1 F. @salon Tunstall cannot be accepted as it is not based on any definite 
reference. 
