{299e. 
299f. 
#209. 
299h. 
196 
lete; @ above dark brown, tail with 5 
narrow pale bands; below dull white 
streaked with brown. 
Falco columbarius alfred-edmundi, Klein- 
schmidt, Falco, xiu., p.9 (1917). [Iceland.] 
Iceland Merlin. 
Much darker race. 
Falco columbarius insignis (Clark), Pr. 
U2S.4 Nat. Mus: sexsi? ps 470 7(1907);; 
[Fusan, Korea. | 
Asiatic Merlin. 
Size similar; wing ¢ 197-205 mm.; ¢ 
above lighter grey ; 2 above paler brown ; 
much less heavily striped below. 
Falco columbarius christiami-ludovici Klein- 
schmidt, Falco, xili., p. 10 (1917). [Cauca- 
sus, type in Kleinschmidt’s Coll.] New 
name for Ff. c. pallidus (Suschk.), pre- 
occupied. 
Pallid Merlin. 
Slightly larger ; wing § 209 mm.; above 
still paler grey and below with smaller 
and paler stripes; @ paler generally. 
Falco columbarius lymani Bangs, Bull. 
M.C.Z., liv., No. 16, p. 465 (1912). [Zsche- 
gan-Burgazi Pass, Altai Mins.] 
Altai Merlin. 
Larger than F. c. insignis; wing 3 225, 
2? 248 mm. ; similar in plumage. 
Iceland. 
Asia; Turkestan 
to China, Japan 
and Ussuriland ; 
in winter to 
Cyprus, Egypt, 
Syria, India, 
S; China- 
Caucasus and 
Kirghissteppe ; 
in winter to 
Turkestan and 
N.W. India. 
FE. Asia, 
(Altai Mtns.). 
