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the middle of the tail, and perhaps some white on the under tail coverts. It 

 flew exactly like a Turkey Buzzard, its wings held at an upward slant." This 

 bird, he thinks, must have been a Zone-tailed Hawk. On April 24, 1889, Mr. 

 Anthony found two pairs nesting on San Pedro Martir, " at elevations of 7000 

 and 7500 feet," and one of the birds was secured.^ 



B. abbreviatus has occurred in southern California a little north of San Die-^o 

 and IS common in southern Arizona and thence southward through Mexico 

 aud Central America into northern. South America. 



Archibuteo ferrugineus (Licht.). 



Ferruginous Rough-leg. 



On November 28 Mr. Frazar obtained two Ferruginous Rough-legs on the 

 summit of the Sierra de la Laguna. One he shot ; the other had been killed 

 the day before by a hunter, who claimed to know the bird perfectly well, and 

 who asserted that it occurs regularly on this mountain in winter. Mr. Frazar 

 did not hear of it elsewhere, and it does not seem to have been reported from 

 any other part of the Peninsula, although it is common in California. The 

 Cape Region perhaps represents the extreme southern limit of its wanderings 

 on the Pacific coast. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linn.). 

 Bald Eagle. 



This Eagle must be rare in Lower California, for it has not been previously 

 reported from any part of the Peninsula. Mr. Frazar, however, obtained defi- 

 nite proof not only of its presence, but of its breeding in the Cape Region, 

 for he was shown a young captive bird in the possession of Mr. Viosca, the 

 American Consul at La Paz, which that gentleman assured him had been 

 taken from a nest on Espiritu Santo Island two years before. It was in the 

 brown plumage when first examined (in January, 1887), but eleven months 

 later exhibited some white on the head and tail. Mr. Frazar also saw a nest 

 on the Gulf coast of the Peninsula opposite Carmen Island, which was evi- 

 dently not an Osprey's, and which the people living in the neighborhood 

 asserted had been occupied for several years by a pair of Eagles. 



The Bald Eagle is found throughout California to the extreme southern 

 border of the State. Dr. Brewer states ^ that it ranges as far south as Central 

 America, but gives no specific records of its occurrence south of the southern 

 border of the United States. 



1 Zoe, IV. 1893, 234. 



2 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, III. 1874, 329. 



