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head Key, Tallahassee, Whitfield, and Pensacola) ; Louisiana (New 

 Orleans and Baton Kouge) ; Texas (Beaumont, Columbus, and prob- 

 ably Corpus Christi); Tamaulipas; and Lower California (San 

 Rafael). West to Lower California (San Rafael) ; California (San 

 Diego, Escondido, San Onofre, Los Angeles, Santa Paula, probably 

 near Buena Vista Lake, probably Visalia, Palo Alto, Sonoma, and 

 probably Tehama) ; and Oregon (Camp Harney). 



According to L. B. Potter (MS.) two pairs of these hawks nested 

 at Eastend, Saskatchewan, in 1909 and 1910. This is, however, well 

 outside of the normal breeding range. 



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

 separated into five subspecies. The northern red-shouldered hawk 

 {Buteo I. lineatus) breeds from southern Ontario, Quebec, and 

 Prince Edward Island south to Kansas, Missouri, and North Caro- 

 lina, wintering south to the Gulf and South Atlantic States; the 

 Florida red-shouldered hawk {B. I. alleni) is resident in the South- 

 ern States from Oklahoma and eastern Texas east to South Carolina 

 and south to central Florida; the insular red-shouldered hawk {B. I. 

 extimus) occupies tlie southern portion of the Florida Peninsula and 

 the Florida Keys; the Texas red-shouldered hawk {B. I. texanus) 

 is resident in the Coastal Plain region of southeastern Texas and 

 adjacent parts of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico; and the red- 

 bellied hawk {B. I. elegam) is the Pacific coast race resident chiefly 

 in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys of California, ranging 

 south to Lower California and Colima. 



The nonmigratory status of the southern forms is indicated by an 

 adult (A625381) banded on January 31 at Lafayette, La., which 

 was killed in the same area on October 2 of the same year. Two 

 others (210898 and 210899) banded as juveniles in Leon County, 

 Fla., on May 7, 1924, were recaptured in the same region on October 

 20, 1924, and April 18, 1930. On the other hand, three birds from 

 the same nest (309826, 309827, and 309828) banded at Windsor, 

 Conn., on June 15, 1924, were all recovered in this State after the 

 lapse of several years, the recovery dates being May 11, 1927, October 

 8, 1928, and November 14, 1928. 



Winter range. — In winter the red-shouldered hawk is found north 

 to California (Tehama) ; western Texas (San Angelo) ; Oklahoma 

 (Oklahoma City) ; Missouri (La Grange) ; southern Illinois (Odin) ; 

 Indiana (Logansport and Richmond) ; Ohio (New Paris, Oberlin, 

 and Youngstown) ; northwestern Pennsylvania (Meadville) ; New 

 York (Geneva, Ithaca, and Rhinebeck) ; and eastern Massachusetts 

 (Boston). East to Massachusetts (Boston) ; Rhode Island (Provi- 

 dence) ; Connecticut (New London) ; Long Island (Orient) ; New 

 Jersey (Princeton, Camden, and Newfield) ; Maryland (Cambridge) ; 



