FALCO. TINNTJNCULUS. 103 



Subhuteo = a little like a Buteo, q. v. ; as if a translation of Aristotle's 

 iirorpi(ip;()js (Gesner). 



Breeds throughout temperate Europe and Asia, and winters 

 in South Africa and India. A summer visitor to England, 

 rarer in Scotland, a straggler in Ireland. 



Falco sesalon. Meblin. 



Falco iEsalon, Tunstall, Ornith. Brit. p. 1 (1771). 



Falco sesalon, Naum. i. p. 303 ; Macg. iii. p. 317; Hewitson, 

 p. 30; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 53; id. ed. 3, i. p. 60; Newton, 

 i. p. 74 ; Gould, i. pi. 19 ; Hurting, p. 4 ; Dresser, vi. 

 p. 83. 



Hypotriorchis sesalon. Gray, p. 13. 



Merlin, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 48. 

 Msalon = alaoKav, a kind of Hawk in Pliny. 



The Merlin is mostly met with as a winter visitant to 

 Great Britain and Ireland, but it breeds in the north, in 

 moorland districts. It breeds throughout the northern parts 

 of the Old World, migrating south in winter. 



Genus TINNTJNCULUS, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 39 



(1807). 



Timmnoulm = a kind of Hawk in Pliny ; probably from tinnto = I ring, 

 have a sharp ghrlU voice, from its bell-like (i. e. monotonous) note. 



Tinnunculus vespertinus. Red-footed Falcon. 



Falco vespertinus, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 129 (1766). 



Falco rufipes, Naum. i. p. 311; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 49 ; id. ed. 3, 



i. p. 56. 

 Falco vespertinus, Macg. iii. p. 313 ; Hewitson, p. 28 ; Newton, 



i. p. 69 ; Hurting, p. 86 ; Dresser, vi. p. 93. 

 Tinnunculus vespertinus. Gray, p. 14. 

 Erythropus vespertinus, Gould, i. pi. 20. 

 Red-footed Falcon, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 44. 



Vespertinus = of the evening, vesper, because described to Linn^us by G. de 

 D^midoff as " flying about in the evening and at night." 



