MERLIN. 



RAPTORES. 



53 



FALCON I DM. 







THE MERLIN. 



Falco asalon. 



Falco esalon, TJie Merlin, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 251. 



MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 48. 



>> n M FLEM. Brit. An. p. 50." 



w SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 51. 



w JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 83. 



>> GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 



Le Faucon Emeritton, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 27. 



THE MEELIN is one of the smallest of the British Fal- 

 conid<, and being of rapid flight and great courage, pos- 

 sesses, on a diminished scale, all the attributes and cha- 

 racters of a true Falcon. So bold as well as powerful, in 



