195 



obsolete, and tipped with white ; below 

 buffy white, striped with pale brown, 

 broadest on the flanks; thighs buffish white, 

 with blackish shaft-lines ; $ above Ught 

 brown, instead of blackish brown ; below 

 striped pale brown instead of blackish 

 brown. 



299c. Falco columbarius bendirei Swann, BuU. 

 B.O.C., xlii., p 66, (1922). [Fort Walla 

 Walla, Washington Ten., Oct. 18, 1881, 

 Capt. Bendire, type in M.C.Z., Harvard, 

 No. 76877.] 

 Californian MerUn. 



Smaller ; wing ^ 186-200, ? 202-218 mm. ; 

 (J above darker slate than F. c. richardsoni, 

 but lighter than F. c. columbarius ; tail 

 black, with 3 bands of grejnsh white and 

 white tips ; below as dark and heavily 

 striped as F. c. columbarius ; thighs rufous 

 buff, much darker than in F. c. richardsoni ; 

 9 similar to that of F. c. richardsoni above, 

 but a shade darker brown ; below as dark 

 as jF. c. columbarius. 



California, N. 

 through Oregon, 

 Idaho and 

 Washington to 

 E. Brit. 

 Columbia and 

 Alberta ; 

 in winter S. to 

 Lower Califor- 

 nia. 



^*299d.Falco columbarius regulus^ Pallas, Reise d. 

 Versuch. Prov. d. Ross. Reichs, ii., p. 707 

 (1773). [Siberia =W. Siberia']. 

 Common Merlin. 



Wing 3 195-203, ? 215-224 mm. ; $ above 

 rather darker slate blue than in No. 299, 

 with the black shaft-lines ; below rather 

 more rufous ; tail slaty blue, tipped with 

 white and with broad subterminal black 

 band, the other black bands nearly obso- 



N. Europe to 

 Brit. Isles, 

 Central Russia 

 and W. Siberia ; 

 in winter S. to 

 N. Africa. 



i F. (sstdon Tunstall cannot be accepted as it is not based on any definite 

 reference. 



