FALCON. 133 



B.— Falco lacteus, Cm. Lin. i. 281. Daud. ii. 81. 

 White Sparrow-Hawk, Gen, Syn. i, p, 100. 



The plumage of this beautiful variety is wholly of a milk 

 white colour, without the least appearance of any bands or mark- 

 ings. It was shot in Dorsetshire, and in the collection of Gen. 

 Davies, who informed me, that others have been seen there of the 

 same plumage. 



57.— MERLIN. 



Falco ^salon, Ind.Orn.'u p. 49. G?n. Lin. i. 284. Brw. i. 382. Jd. 8vo. 111. 



Rail, p. 15. Will. p. 50, t. 3. Klein. Av. p. 50. Frisch. t. 89. Ger. Orn. \. 



t. 16. 18. 19? Spahicsk.Voi/.t.». Daud. u. 137. Bechst. Dents, n. ^.Z2%. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 196. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 38. Id. ed. 2. p. 27: 

 Zwergfalk, Naturf. 8. s. 55, 257. 

 Merlin, Gen. Syn. i. p. 100. Id. Sup. p. 29. Br. Zool. i. No. 63. Id.fol. t. A. 12. 



Id. ed. 1812. i. p. 251. Will. Eng. p. 85. Betcick, ii, pi. p. 41. Lervin, i. pi. 22; 



Id. Eggs, pi. iii. f. 4. Pult. Dors. p. 3. Wale, Birds, i. pi. 22. Don. Br, Birds, 



iv. pi. 94. Graves^s Br. Ornith. 



THIS is a small species ; common weight of the male 5 oz. ; 

 length 10 inches ; bill bluish lead-colour ; cere pale yellow ; irides 

 dark; head ferruginous; the feathers streaked with bluish-black 

 down the shaft ; back, and wings bluish ash-colour, streaked and 

 spotted with ferruginous ; edges the same ; quills nearly black, with 

 reddish oval spots ; under wing coverts brown, with round white 

 spots ; tail 5 in. long, crossed with from thirteen to fifteen alternate 



