195 
obsolete, and tipped with white; below 
buffy white, striped with pale brown, 
broadest on the flanks ; thighs buffish white, 
with blackish shaft-lines; 9 above light 
brown, instead of blackish brown; below 
striped pale brown instead of blackish 
brown. 
299c. Falco columbarius bendivei Swann, Bull. California, N. 
B.O.C., xhi., p 66, (1922). [Fort Walla through Oregon, 
Walla, Washington Terr., Oct. 18, 1881, Idaho and 
Capt. Bendire, type in M.C.Z., Harvard, Washington to 
No. 76877. | i. But. 
Californian Merlin. Columbia and 
Alberta ; 
Smaller ; wing g 186-200, 2 202-218 mm.; in winter S. to 
3d above darker slate than F. c. vicharvdsoni, Lower Califor- 
but lighter than F. c. columbarius; tail nia. 
black, with 3 bands of greyish white and 
white tips; below as dark and heavily 
striped as F. c. columbarius ; thighs rufous 
buff, much darker than in F.c. richardson; 
@ similar to that of F. c. richardsom above, 
but a shade darker brown ; below as dark 
as F. c. columbarius. 
7*299d. Falco columbarius regulus! Pallas, Reised. N. Europe to 
Versuch. Prov. d. Ross. Reichs, ii., p. 707 Brit. Isles, 
(1773). [Siberia =W. Siberia]. Central Russia 
Common Merlin. and W. Siberia ; 
in winter S. to 
Wing ¢ 195-203, 2 215-224 mm.; g above N. Africa. 
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- 
4 F. @salon Tunstall cannot be accepted as it is not based on any definite 
reference. 
