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garni Forest Reserve) ; and Quebec (probably Inlet, Quebec, and 

 Mont Louis River) . East to Quebec (Mont Louis River) ; New Bruns- 

 Avick (Scotch Lake and St. Jolm) ; Maine (Holden, Ellsworth, and 

 Portland) ; Massachusetts (Boston, Taunton, and Cape Cod) ; Rhode 

 Island (near Newport) ; Long Island (Miller Place) ; New Jersey 

 (Morristown, Salem, and Cape May) ; Maryland (Easton) ; Vir- 

 ginia (Prince Edward County) ; North Carolina (Raleigh) ; South 

 Carolina (Greenwood) ; Georgia (Athens and Atlanta) ; Florida (Mi- 

 canopy, Lake Harney, and Palm Key) ; probably formerly Puerto 

 Rico and the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia, the 

 Grenadines, and Grenada) . South to the Lesser Antilles (Grenada) ; 

 Cuba (Isle of Pines) ; Florida (Manatee, St. Marks, and Pensacola) ; 

 Alabama (Mobile) ; Louisiana (Hannnond and St. Francisville) ; and 

 eastern Texas (Houston and possibly rarely Austin). West to Texas 

 (possibly rarely Austin) ; Oklahoma (Vinita and Copan) ; western 

 Missouri (Kansas City) ; eastern Nebraska (Omaha) ; northwestern 

 Iowa (Sioux City) ; North Dakota (Fargo and probably the Turtle 

 Mountains) ; probably southeastern Saskatchewan (Moose Moun- 

 tain) ; and Alberta (St. Anne, Glenevis, and Belvedere). 



The range as above outlined is for the entire species, which has 

 been separated into five geographic races, all being confined to the 

 Caribbean region, except typical platypterus, which is the only form 

 in continental North America. Buteo f. cubanensis is found in Cuba, 

 the Isle of Pines, and probably occurred formerly in Puerto Rico; 

 B. J), rivieri occupies the Lesser Antilles from Dominica to St. Lucia ; 

 B. p. insulicola is restricted to the island of Antigua ; and B. p. antil- 

 larum occupies the Lesser Antilles on the islands of St. Vincent and 

 Grenada and the larger Grenadines. 



Winter range. — Despite many published statements to the contrary, 

 a careful studj^ of the available data fails to sliow that the broad- 

 winged hawk is a regular winter resident anywhere in the United 

 States. A few may occasionally winter in Florida (near St. Marks, 

 Captiva Island, Sanibel Island, Monroe and Volusia Counties, and the 

 Florida Keys), and there are records of winter occurrence, supported 

 by specimens, from more northern localities, but these can be con- 

 sidered only as casuals. 



The winter range is chiefly in northwestern South America and in 

 Central America. It appears to extend north, casually to southern 

 Mexico (Santa Efigenia). From that region the species winters 

 south tiirough Guatemala (Coban, Salama, Duenas, San Geronimo, 

 Secanquim. and Barillas) ; Nicaragua (Escondido River) ; Costa Rica 

 (San Jose and Escaso) ; Panama (Gatun, C. Z., Boquete, and the 

 Bananas River) ; Colombia (Santa Marta, Minea, Bonda, Valpa- 

 raiso, San Antonio, Mamatoco, and other points) ; Venezuela (Merida, 



