166 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Montana and North Dakota; winters south to southern Lower California, 

 northwestern Mexico, and southern Texas; casual in California and Missouri; 

 accidental in South Carolina. 



[Falco ssalon Tdnstall. Merlin. [358.1.] 



Falco malm Tunstall, Orn. Brit., 1771, 1. (Great Britain.) 



Range. — Europe, Asia, and northern Africa; accidental in Green- 

 land.] 



Subgenus RHYMCHOFALCO Ridgway. 



Rhynchofalco Ridgway, Proo. Bost. Soc. N. H., XVI, 1873, 46. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Fdko femoralis Temminck = Falco fusco-ccerulescens 



VlEILLOT. 



Falco Msco-cserulescens Vieillot. Aplomado Falcon. [359.] 



Falco fusco-ccerulescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XI, 1817, 90. 

 (Paraguay.) 



Range. — Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Texas south through 

 Central America to Patagonia. 



Subgenus CERCHNEIS Boie. 



Cerchneis Boie, Isis, XIX, 1826, 970. Type, by monotypy, Falco rupi- 

 colus Daudin. 



[Falco tinnunculus Linn.£US. Kestrel. [359.1.] 



Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in 

 Greenland (Cape Farewell).] 



Falco sparvSrius Linnaeus. 



Range. — North and South America. 



a. Falco sparverius sparverius Linn/eus. Sparrow Hawk. [360.] 



Falco sparverius Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Breeds from the 

 Upper Yukon, northwestern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, and Newfound- 



