ORDER FALCONIFORMES, 77 



• Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus Linnaeus. Kestrel. [359.1.] 



Falco Tinnunculus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 90. (in Europae 

 turribus, etc. = Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of the Eastern Hemisphere. Accidental in Massa- 

 chusetts (Nantasket Beach, September 29, 1887) ' and Greenland (Cape Fare- 

 well) .^ [Additional races occur in Asia and Africa.] 



Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus. Eastern Sparrow Hawk. [360.] 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 90. Based on 

 The Little Hawk, Accipiter minor Catesby, Carolina, I, 5. (in 

 America = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Upper Yukon, British Columbia, northwestern 

 Mackenzie, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, northern Ontario, southern Que- 

 bec, and Newfoundland south to northwestern California, western Oregon, 

 Colorado, eastern Texas, and the eastern Gulf States (except the southern 

 border and Florida). Winters from southern British Columbia, Kansas, 

 Indiana, central Illinois, Ohio, southern Ontario, southern Michigan, southern 

 Vermont, and Massachusetts south through eastern Mexico to Panama. 



Falco sparverius phalaena (Lesson). Desert Sparrow Hawk. [360o.] 



Tinnunculus phalaena Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12* ann., June 19, 

 1845, col. 1087. (San Bias and Acapulco, Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, 

 and southern Nevada south into Mexico and northern Lower California. 

 Winters south to Guatemala. 



Falco sparverius peninsularis Mearns. San Lucas Sparrow Hawk. [3606.] 



Falco sparverius peninsularis Mearns, Auk, IX, No. 3, July, 1892, 267. 

 (San Jose, Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California. 



Falco sparverius paulus (Howe and King). Little Sparrow Hawk. [360c.] 



Cerchneis sparverius paulus Howe and King, Contrib. N. Amer. Orn., 

 I, May 21, 1902, 28. (Miami, Florida.) 



Range. — Florida Peninsula and the southern portion of the Gulf States 

 north to central Alabama. 



1 Cory, Auk, V, 1888, 110, 205. 



2 Hagerup, Birds Greenland, 1891, 57. 



