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Average, 16.91- 9.57- 3.72+ 1.81- 1.61+ 1.40+ .9^ .80- 



The Western Red-tailed Hawk is common and very generally distributed 

 throughout the Cape Region. Mr. Frazar found it at all seasons, but most 

 numerously in late autumn, when there is probably an influx of birds which 

 have bred further north. During the last two weeks of November a great 

 many were seen about the lagoon at Santiago, where they were e\adently 

 attracted by the Coots (Fulica), on which they were preying. Some of them 

 were very bold and easily shot. One pounced on a Quail (Lophortyx califor- 

 nicus vallicola) which Mr. Frazar had just wounded and which lay fluttering 

 on the ground within fifteen yards of the spot where he was standing. 



Mr. Bryant saw the Western Red-tail at Santa ^largarita Island in January 

 and February, 1888; at Ubi on May 9, 1889; and at San Fernando (no date 

 given). Mr. Anthony says that it is "very common throughout the northern 

 part of the peninsula," and that he found it " nesting in abundance in the 

 pines on San Pedro [Martir]."' ^ Its general range along the Pacific slope 

 extends from Alaska southward into Mexico. 



Buteo abbreviatus Cab. 



ZOXE-TAILED HaWK. 



Buteo abbreviatus Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , V. 1883, 544 (Cape Region). 

 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 280 (Cape Region).. Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1892, 229 (Cape St. Lucas Region). 

 GoDMAN and Sharpe, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, III. 1900, GO (nesting near 

 Cape St. Lucas). 



Mr. Belding mentions this species as " very rare." Mr. Frazar obtained no 

 specimens, but on four different occasions at San Jose del Cabo, and once at 

 Santiago he saw " a perfectly black Hawk having a narrow white band across 



1 Collection Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 a Zoe, IV. 1893, 233. 



