BIRDS OP SOUTHERN VERACRUZ — WETMORE 243 



On April 6, 1939, I saw one near Cerro Chico Zapote, to the south 

 of Tres Zapotes. 



FALCO SPARVERIUS SPARVERIUS Linnaeus: Eastern Sparrow Hawk 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 90 (South 

 Carolina). 



The sparrow hawk was common on March 6, 1939, when I began 

 observations at Tlacotalpam, and a male shot the following day was 

 one of the first specimens that I secured at Tres Zapotes. The birds 

 were seen on commanding perches on palms and other trees through 

 the cornfields and were constantly observed about our camp. On 

 March 17 I noted a sudden decrease in their number, due apparently 

 to migration to the north. On April 2 two passed camp traveling 

 due north. Scattered individuals were seen daily until my departure, 

 and it appeared to me that some might be breeding birds, but of this 

 I was not certain. Two taken on March 30 and April 3 appear iden- 

 tical with the bird of the eastern United States. Whether the spar- 

 row hawk actually breeds in this area remains to be ascertained, 

 though Ramon, my native assistant, said that they nested in holes 

 in the palms.. 



Carriker secured specimens at Tres Zapotes on January 19 and 

 April 5, 1940. 



FALCO ALBIGULARIS ALBIGULARIS Daudin 



Falco albigularis Daudin, Traits d'ornithologie, vol. 2, 1800, p. 131 (Cayenne). 



This falcon is rare in the region under discussion, as we recorded 

 it only twice. On March 22, 1938, I shot one from a tall, dead tree 

 at the border of a grove, above an old milpa. Carriker secured an- 

 other on May 5, 1940, from a dead limb of a very tall tree standing 

 high up on the slopes of Cerro de Tuxtla. Both are males. 



Family CRACIDAE 



CRAX RUBRA RUBRA Linnaeus 



Vrax rubra Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 157 (western 

 Ecuador). 14 



Carriker secured a pair on Cerro de Tuxtla on May 4 and 8. The 

 bird was well known to inhabit the Tuxtla Mountains, but accounts 

 of it were confused and conflicting. His first view of it was of a 

 captive bird near Tuxtla, which had been reared from an egg. Near 

 Tapacoyan this species was called cholin, while on the eastern side 

 of the same mountain the natives knew it as the faisdn, a name usually 

 applied to Penelope p. purpurascens. On Volcan San Martin it was 

 called faisdn real. 



14 See Hellmayr and Conover, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 1, No. 1, 

 Apr. 30, 1942, p. 130. 



