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Accipiter veloxvelox (Wilson). Sharp-shinned Hawk. [332.] 



Falco velox Wilson, Amer. Orn., V, 1812, 116 (pi. 45, fig. 1). (banks of 

 the Schuylkill, near Mr. Bartram's [Pliiladelphia, Pa.].) 



Range. — Breeds nearly throughout the United States and Canada from 

 northwestern Alaska, Mackenzie (Great Bear Lake), northern Manitoba, 

 northern Ontario, central Quebec, southern Labrador, and Newfoundland 

 south to northern Florida, the Gulf coast, Texas, Arizona, and west-central 

 California. Winters from southeastern Alaska, southern British Columbia, 

 western Montana, southern Minnesota (casually), northern Nebraska, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Ohio, New York, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire, and 

 New Brunswick (casually), to Guatemala, and (casually) Panama. Accidental 

 in the Bahamas. [Closely allied races occur in Cuba, Haiti, and Porto Rico.] 



Accipiter cooperi (Bonaparte). Cooper's Hawk. [333.] 



Falco cooperii Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., II, 1828, 1 (pi. x, fig. 1). (near 

 Bordentown, New Jersey.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Alberta, southern 

 Ontario, southern Quebec, and Prince Edward Island to the southern border of 

 the United States and northern Mexico. Winters from southwestern British 

 Columbia, Washington, California, Colorado, Nebraska, southern Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio, southern Michigan (rarely), southern Ontario (rarely), southern 

 New York, Massachusetts, and southern Maine to Costa Rica. 



Subfamily BUTEONINAE. Buzzards and Eagles. 



Genus BUTEG Lac^ pede, 



Buteo Lacepede, Tableaux Oiseaux, 1799, 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco 

 buteo Linnaeus. 



Subgenus BUTEO LacSpede. 



Buteo borealis borealis (Gmelin). Eastern Red-tailed Hawk. [337.] 



Falco borealis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 266.^ Based on the 

 American Buzzard Latham, General Synops., I, Pt. i, 50, and the Red- 

 tailed Falcon Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 205. (in America boreali, 

 potissimum Carolina = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba, north- 

 ern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to central southern 

 Texas, northeastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, and northern Florida. 



1 Falco jamaicensis Gmelin has been used by some authors for the Jamaica 

 Red-tail which would replace borealis as the specific name of the group on 

 grounds of line priority but the description does not seem sufficiently clear to 

 warrant the adoption of this name. 

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