196 



lete ; $ above dark brown, tail with 5 

 narrow pale bands ; below dull white 

 streaked with brown. 



f299e. Falco columbarius alfred-edmundi, Klein- Iceland. 

 Schmidt, Falco, xiii., p. 9 (1917). [Iceland.] 

 Iceland Merlin. 



Much darker race. 



2991. Falco columbarius insignis (Clark), Pr. 

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

 [Fusan, Korea.] 

 Asiatic Merlin. 



Size similar ; wing c? 197-205 mm. ; cj 

 above hghter grey ; $ above paler brown ; 

 much less heavily striped below. 



Asia ; Turkestan 

 to China, Japan 

 and Ussuriland ; 

 in winter to 

 Cyprus, Egypt, 

 Syria, India, 

 S. China. 



*299g. Falco columbarius christiani-ludovici Klein- 

 schmidt, Falco, xiii., p. 10 (1917). [Cauca- 

 sus, type in Kleinschmidt's Coll.] New 

 name for F. c. pallidus (Suschk.), pre- 

 occupied. 

 Palhd Merhn. 



Caucasus and 

 Kirghissteppe ; 

 in winter to 

 Turkestan and 

 N.W. India. 



Slightly larger ; wing $ 209 mm. ; above 

 still paler grey and below with smaller 

 and paler stripes ; $ paler generally. 



299h. Falco columbarius lymani Bangs, Bull. 

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

 gan-Burgazi Pass, Altai Mtns.] 

 Altai Merhn. 



Larger than F. c. insignis ; wing (J 225, 

 $ 248 mm. ; similar in plumage. 



E. Asia, 

 (Altai Mtns.). 



