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Order ANSERIFORMES 

 Family ANATIDAE, Ducks, Geese, and Swans 



DENDROCYGNA ABBOREA (Linnaeus) 



West Indian Tree-duck 



Anas arborea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 128 (Jamaica'^). 



One male and three females were secured by S. W. Parish on lie a 

 Vache in May. 



Order FALCONIFORMES 



Suborder Falcones 



Family ACCIPITRIDAE, Hawks and Eagles 



BUTEO JAMAICENSIS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin) 



West Indian Red-tailed Hawk 



Falco jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 266 (Jamaica). 



Two adult specimens in fine plumage were taken, a male at the 

 western end of Gonave Island on March 21, and a female on Petite 

 Cayemite on April 10. The female has the dark area on the abdomen 

 more extensive and the black more nearly continuous than the male. 



BUTEO RIDGWAYI (Cory) 



Ridgway's Havv^k 



Rtt,pornis ridgwayi Cory, Quart. Jouib. Boston Zo<51. Soc, vol. 2, Oct., 1883, p. 46 

 (Samana, Dominican Republic). 



The three skins taken on lie a Vache on April 30 and May 1 con- 

 stitute records from a new locality for an interesting bird that ap- 

 parently is now rare except on the Cayemite Islands where Abbott 

 secured a number. Two of the skins obtained are adult males, and 

 the third is an immature bird fully grown. The species has been 

 seldom recorded in recent years on the main island and may be dimin- 

 ishing in numbers. A female taken on April 30 was preserved as a 

 skeleton. 



Doctor Hellmayr informs me that Cory's types were labeled Sa- 

 mana, the male being taken on April 19 and the female on April 4, 

 1883, so that Samana, Dominican Republic, is the type locality for 

 this species. 



Peters ^ holds that the group of species usually segregated as the 

 genus Rufornh has no trenchant characters that will separate them 

 from BvJeo, in which assumption he appears correct. 



' Soe Peters, Checklist of biids of the world, vol. 1, 1931, p. 154. 

 8 Chock-list of birds of the world, vol. 1. 1931, p. 228. 



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