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297. Falco columbarius colnmbarius Linn., S.N., 

 i., p. 90 (1758). ["America," ex. Catesby = 

 Carolina.] 

 Pigeon Hawk. 



N. America 

 in winter 

 S. to 

 W. Indies 

 and North. 

 S. America. 



Darker form. 

 297a. Falco columbarius 

 Essex Inst., v., p. 

 Bay, Washington.] 

 Suckley's Merlin. 



sucklcvi Ridgw\, Bnll. 

 201 (1873). [Shoalwater 



N.W. 

 America, 

 Sitka to N. 

 California. 



297b. 



Size similar ; wing S 7.65-8, ? 8.50-8.85 

 in. ; c^ above rather lighter slate blue, 

 with the black shaft-lines ; below rather 

 more rufous ; tail slaty blue, tipped with 

 white and with broad subterminal band, 

 the other black bands nearly obsolete ; 

 $ above dark brown, tail with 5 narrow 

 pale bands ; below dull white streaked 

 with brown. 



Falco columbarius ccsalon Tunst.,Orn. Brit, 

 p. 1 (1771) [ex. Pennant, British Isles.] 

 Common Merlin. 



N. Europe' 

 to Brit. 

 Isles and 

 Central 

 Russia ; in 

 winter S. to 

 N. Africa. 



Size similar; wing S 7.75-8.10 in.; c^ 

 above lighter grey ; $ above paler brown ; 

 much less heavily striped below. 

 297c. Falco columbarius insignis (Clark), Pr. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxii., p. 470 (1907). 

 [F'usan, Korea.] 

 Asiatic Merlin. 



Asia ; 

 Turkestan 

 to China, 

 Japan and 

 Ussuriland; 

 in winter to 

 Cyprus, 

 Syria, 

 India, 

 S. China. 



