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November 28; while a third (201381), banded on October 11 at 

 Harper, Kans., was killed at Caddo, Tex., on September 7 of the 

 following year. 



Casual records. — Brooks (1917) reports that he has twice seen the 

 red-bellied hawk at Chilliwack, British Columbia; Fannin states 

 that he took it at Burrard Inlet (Kermode, 1904) , and Macoun (1909) 

 reported that W. B. Anderson had found it at Port Simpson. Never- 

 theless, no specimen of the species is known from this Province. A 

 specimen was taken on November 17, 1853, at a camp on the Little 

 Colorado River, N. Mex., and Dr. Henry claimed that he saw it at 

 Fort Thorn during the winter of 1856-57 (Bailey, 1928). It also 

 has been reported from Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, 

 and Alberta, but in none of these cases has a specimen been col- 

 lected. A specimen was taken on February 26, 1863, at Kingussie, 

 Scotland. 



Egg dates. — Southern Canada: 41 records, April 16 to May 25; 21 

 records April 24 to May 7. 



New England and New York : 383 records, March 5 to May 31 ; 192 

 records, April 18 to 29. 



New Jersey to Virginia: 99 records, March 19 to June 28; 49 

 records, April 10 to 25. 



Ohio to North Dakota and Colorado: 75 records, March 13 to 

 June 21 ; 38 records, April 13 to May 1. 



Washington to California: 185 records, February 12 to June 19; 

 93 records, March 23 to April 13. 



South Carolina and Florida to Texas: 196 records, January 20 to 

 June 3 ; 98 records, March 2 to April 4. 



BUTEG LINEATUS ALLENI Ridgway 

 FLORIDA RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 



HABITS 



Ridgway (1884) , in naming this southern race of the red-shouldered 

 hawk, characterized it as "smaller than B. liTieatus^ the adult much 

 paler in color, with no rufous on upper parts, except on lesser wing- 

 coverts; the young decidedly darker than in true Uneatus.''^ He 

 says further : "The very decided ashy coloration of the upper parts, 

 relieved only by fine shaft-lines of black on the head and neck, dusky 

 clouding on the back, and white streaking on the occiput, combined 

 with the pale coloration of the lower parts, serves readily to distin- 

 guish this race from the true B. Uneakis.^^ 



This small pale race might more properly be called the southern 

 red-shouldered hawk, for it is widely distributed throughout the 

 Southern States, from South Carolina to Arkansas and Oklahoma, 

 and a more recently described form occupies the southern part of 



