Fatcons. RAPACES. FALCO. 45 
Pirate 17 *. An adult male of the natural size. 
Bill bluish-grey at the base, tip black. Cere and naked General 
space round the eyes lemon-yellow. Inrides_ brown. ieee ml 
Forehead yellowish-white. Crown of the head, nape of Male Bird. 
the neck, and part of the shoulders, light clove-brown 
with the shafts of the feathers blackish-grey. Back and 
wing coyerts reddish-crange, with a few arrow-shaped 
black spots. Rump bluish-grey ; tail the same, with a 
broad black bar near the tip, which is white. From the 
corners of the mouth is a dark greyish-black streak, run- 
ning beneath the eye, and pointing downwards. Throat 
and chin yellowish-white. Breast, belly, and thighs 
buff-orange, inclinmg to light reddish orange, with 
brownish-black spots. Quills black, with the margins 
and tips greyish-white. Legs and feet safiron-yellow. 
Claws black. 
x» Merlin.—F alco Asalon, Temm. 
PLATES 18. and 18 *. 
Falco salon, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. p. 27. 
Faucon Emerillon, Temm. do. do. 
Falco Litho-Falco, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 47. t. 115.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 278. Syn. of 
Briss. 1. p. 349. 8.—Raii, Syn. p. 14. 8. aa brite. 
Falco cesius, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 60. Male. 
Le Rochier, Buff: Ois. v. 1. p. 286.—Id. Pl. Enl. 447. 
Stone Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 93. 77..-Mont. App. to Supp. of Ornith 
Dict.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 7. p. 182. J 
J 
Falco HMsalon, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 284. sp. 118.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 49 
t. 119.—Raii, Syn. p. 15. 15.—Briss. 1. p. 382. 23.— Will. p. 50. t. 3. 
L’Emerillon, Buff: Ois. Pl. Enl. 468. Young Male. 
Merlin, Br. Zool. 1. No. 63.— Wil. (Ang.) p. 85. t. 7.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
1. t. 22.Lath. Syn. 1. p. 106. 93.—Id. Suppl. p. 27.—Mont. Ornith. 
Dict.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 3.—Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 39.—Walc. Syn. 
1. t. 22._Don, Br. Birds, 4. t. 94. Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 41.—Shaw’s 
Zool. 7. p. 196. 
Syn. of 
Female, 
and imma- 
ture Males. 
The merlin has generally been considered a winter or equa- Partially 
: muito oe migratory. 
torial visitant, and to leave Great Britain at the approach of 
spring, for other and more northern climates. Repeated 
