s:\ 



falco j:salon. 



(MERLIN.) 



Falco lithofalco, Brisson, Orn. i. p. 349 (1766). 



Falco cesalon, Brisson, torn. cit. p. 3S2 (1766). 



Le Eochier, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 286 (1770). 



L'Emerillon, Buff. torn. cit. p. 288, pi. xix. (1770). 



Falco cesalon, Tunstall, Ornithologia Britannica, p. 1 (1771). 



Falco regulus, Pall. Reise, ii. Anhang, p. 707 (1773). 



Falco lithofalco, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 278 (1788, ex Briss.). 



Falco cesalon, Gm. torn. cit. p. 284 (1788, ex Briss.). 



Falco falconiarum, Gm. torn. cit. p. 284 (1788, ex Buff). 



Falco smirillus, Savigny, Ois. d'Egypte (1809). 



Falco sibiricus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 1, p. 207 (1809). 



Falco cmsius, Wolf, Taschenb. deutschen Vogelk. i. p. 60 (1810). 



Hypotriorchis a?salon (Tunst.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 314. 



JEsalon, Kaup (Falco cesalon, Gm.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 40 (1829). 



JEsalon lithofalco (Gm.), Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 530. 



JEsalon orientalis, C. L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 269. 



JEsalon regulus (Pall.), Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 9. 



Hypotriorchis lithofalco major, A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 1 (1866). 



Hypotriorchis lithofalco minor, A. E. Brehm, ut supra. (1866). 



Hypotriorchis cesalon major, A. E. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 



Hypotriorchis oesalon minor, A. E. Brehm, ut supra (1806). 



Lithofalco wsalon (Tunst.), Hume, Hough Notes, i. p. 89 (1869). 



Falco wsalon j3. alaudarius, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotnie, pp. 63 & 114 (1873). 



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Seog, Gaelic ; Faucon Emerillon, French ; Zwergfalke, German ; Esmerejon, Spanish ; 

 Smeriglio, Smerlo, Italian ; Smelleken, Dutch ; Steenfalk, Blaafalk, Danish ; Dvergfalk, 

 Stenfalk, Norwegian ; Dvergfalk, Swedish ; Pikkuhaukka, Finnish ; Derbnic socol, Russian. 



Figuroe notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 447, 468; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 11; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. pi. 3; 

 Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 87 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 3. fig. 7, and taf. 4. fig. 4 ; Nau- 

 mann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 27. figs. 1-3; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. taf. 26. fig. 3; Gould, B. of 

 Eur. pi. 24 ; id. B. of G. Brit. i. pi. xix. ; Salvin & Brodr. Falconry, pis. 7, 8 ; Schlegel & 

 Susemihl, taf. 10. figs. 2, 3 ; Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. taf. 6. 



<3 ad. fronte sordide albidi : capite summo et corpore supra cserulescenti-schistaceis, plumis centraliter nigro- 

 fusco striatis : collo postico rufescente, fulvido notato : remigibus nigricantibus in pogonio interno 



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