142 



297d. 



Slightly larger ; wing (J 8.25 in. ; above 

 still paler grey and below with smaller 

 and paler stripes ; $ paler generally. 

 Falco columbarius pallidas (Suschk.) Bull. 

 B.O.C., xi., p. 5 (1900). [W. Kirghissteppe.] 

 Pallid Merlin. 



Kirghis- 

 steppe ; in 

 winter to 

 Turkestan 

 and 

 N.W. India 



Larger 



wing (^ 8.90, $ 9.85 in. 

 297e. Falco columbarius lyniani Bangs, Bull. E. Asia, 

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

 gan-Biirgazi Pass, Altai Mtns.] Mtns.) 



Altai Merhn. 



297f. 



WingcJ 7.70, $ 9 in. ; cJ above earth brown, 

 with greyer centres and black shaft-lines 

 to all the feathers ; tail with 5 bands of 

 ashy white and tipped with the same ; 

 below buffy white, striped with ochraeous 

 brown, broadest on the flanks ; $ more 

 similar to cJ, but the feathers of upper 

 parts with ochraeous spots. 

 Falco columbarius richardsoni Ridgw., 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1870, p. 145 

 (1871). [Mcuth of Vermilion River, S. 

 Dakota.] 

 Richardson's Merlin. 



Gt. Plains 



of W. North 

 America ; 

 Saskat- 

 chewan 

 Valley to 

 N. Dakota, 

 in winter to 

 N.W. 

 Mexico. 



Gen. LXXXV. lERACIDEA Gould (1837). 



Distance between tips of primaries and tips of 

 secondaries less than half length of tail ; tarsus 

 transversely plated bear base of toes, and appre- 

 ciably longer than in Falco. 



