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Carolina and west to the edge of the Great Plains. Winters from central 

 Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, southern Ohio, southern Ontario, central New York, 

 southern New Hampshire, and southern Vermont south to the Gulf coast and 

 Texas. 



Buteo lineatus alleni Ridgway. Florida Red-shouldered Hawk. [339a.] 



Buteo lineatus alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 514 

 [Feb. 25, 1885]. (Tampa, Florida.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone of the Southern States from Oklahoma, 

 Arkansas, Aliabama, and South Carolina to Louisiana and southeastern 

 Florida. 



Buteo lineatus extimus Bangs. Insular Red-shouldered Hawk. [339c.] 



Buteo lineatus extimus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, VII, 35, Jan. 

 16, 1920. (Cape Florida, southern end of Key Biscajne [Florida].) 



Range. — Florida Keys. 



Buteo lineatus texanus Bishop. Texas Red-shouldered Hawk. [339d.] 



Buteo lineatus texanus Bishop, Auk, XXIX, No. 2, April 5, 1912, 232. 

 (Corpus Christi, Texas.) 



Range. — Central southern Texas south into Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



Buteo lineatus elegans Cassin. Red-bellied Hawk. [3396.] 



Buteo elegans Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., VII, No. 7, Jan.-Feb., 

 1855 [May 22], 281. (California.) 



Range. — ^Resident in the Austral zones of California, chiefly in tlie San 

 Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and lowlands of the San Diegan district, 

 from Marin and Shasta counties south to northwestern Lower California. 



Buteo platypterus platypterus (Vieillot) . Broad-winged Hawk. [343.] 



Sparvius platypterus Vieillot, Tableau Encycl. Meth., Ill, 1823, 1273. 

 New name for Falco pennsylvanicus Wilson, Amer. Orn., VI, 92 (pi. 54, 

 fig. 1). (L'Amerique septentrionale = Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — Breeds from central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, southern 

 Manitoba, Ontario, central Quebec, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton Island 

 south to the Gulf coast and central Texas, mainly east of the Mississippi. 

 Winters from southern Florida and southern Mexico through Central America 

 to Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru; rarely farther north (reported from Con- 

 necticut, New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois). Recorded 

 also from Cuba, Haiti, and Porto Rico. [Closely allied races are resident in the 

 Lesser Antilles.] 



