+299e. 
*299¢. 
299h. 
196 
@ above dark brown, tail with 5 
below dull white 
lete ; 
narrow pale bands ; 
streaked with brown. 
Falco columbarius alfred-edmundi, Klein- 
schmidt, Falco, xiil., p.9 (1917). [Iceland.] 
Iceland Merlin. 
Much darker race. 
. Falco columbarius insignis (Clark), Pr. 
US: Nat. Mus xox; sp. 470 (1S07): 
[Fusan, Korea.] 
Asiatic Merlin. 
Size similar; wing ¢ 197-205 mm.; ¢ 
above lighter grey ; 9 above paler brown ; 
much less heavily striped below. 
Falco columbarius christiami-ludovict Klein- 
schmidt, Falco, xiii., p. 10 (1917). [Cauca- 
sus, type in Kleinschmidt’s Coll.] New 
name for F. c. pallidus (Suschk.), pre- 
occupied. 
Pallid Merlin. 
Slightly larger ; wing ¢ 209 mm.; above 
still paler grey and below with smaller 
and paler stripes ; 2 paler generally. 
Falco columbarius lymani Bangs, Bull. 
M.C.Z., liv., No. 16, p. 465 (1912). [Tsche- 
gan-Burgaz Pass, Altai Mtns.) 
Altai Merlin. 
Larger than F. c. insignis; wing g 225, 
2 248 mm. ; similar in plumage. 
Iceland. 
Asia; Turkestan 
to China, Japan 
and Ussuriland ; 
in winter to 
Cyprus, Egypt, 
Syria, India, 
S. China. 
Caucasus and 
Kirghissteppe ; 
in winter to 
Turkestan and 
N.W. India. 
E. Asia, 
(Altai Mtns.). 
