BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 687 



FALCO FEMORAUS FEMORAUS Temminck 



Southern Aplomado Falcon 



All plumages like those of the northern race, but the birds smaller 

 in size. 



Adult male.—Wmg 230-254 (240.9); tail 149-170 (157.5); culmen 

 from cere 15-16.5 (16); tarsus 43-50 (44.2); middle toe without claw 

 34-36 (34.6 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.—^ ing 261-282 (270.6); tail 169-182 (176.4); culmen 

 from cere 18-20 (18.6); tarsus 45-51 (47.4); middle toe without claw 

 35-40 (37.7 mm.). 66 



Range. — Eesident from British Honduras (one record, Ycacos 

 Lagoon) and Panama (one record, arid plains of Aguadulce, Code 

 Province; also one vague and uncertain mention of the species in 

 Costa Rica) ; south throughout most of South America from Colom- 

 bia to Tierra del Fuego, excepting the high Andes of Ecuador and 

 Peru (where it is replaced by another subspecies, Falco femoralis 

 pichinchae Chapman); Colombia (Alamatoco, Call, Rio Frio); Vene- 

 zuela (Orinoco River, Apure River, Altagracia, Caicara, Ciudad 

 Bolivar, Lake Valencia, Angostura); Trinidad; British Guiana 

 (Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu Mountains, Perara) ; Dutch Guiana 

 (Surinam) ; French Guiana; Brazil (Amazonia, Pard, lower Parnahyba 

 River, Paranagua, Goiaz, Minas Gerais, Joazeiro, Sao Paulo, Matto 

 Grosso, etc.); Peru (?) (Chachuapata, Arequipa, Chosica, Ingapirca, 

 Piriyacu, Pichacani, Tinta, Maraynioc)*' ; Bohvia (Aullagas, Moxos, 

 Chiquitos (no Bolivian birds examined)); Chile (Sacayu, Santiago, 

 Vilugu) ; Argentina (Buenos Aires, Ajo, Cape San Antonio, Rosas, 

 Corrientes, Entre Rios, Santa Elena, Conchitas, Rio Cuarto, Caiza, 

 Talea, Fraile Muerto, Tucumdn, Salta, Lerma, Cordoba, Chaco, 

 La Rioja, Lomas de Zamora, Formosa); Patagonia (Port Desire, 

 Moreno) ; Tierra del Fuego. 



The absence of Uruguayan records is not to be interpreted as sig- 

 nificant. Records will undoubtedly be forthcoming with more obser- 

 vation. 



Tyj)e locality.— T Sir agu&j. 



F alco femoralis Temminck, Planches Col., i, 1823, pis. 121, 343, and text. — Spix, 

 Av. Bras., i, 1824, 18 (Amazonia). — Cuvier, RSgne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 

 322.— Lesson, Man. d'Orn., i, 1828, 79; Traits d'Orn., 1831, 89.— Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 2, 1826, 38 (Brazil) .-d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. 

 M^rid., iv, pt. 3, 1839, 116 (Buenos Aires and Corrientes, Argentina: Para- 

 guay; Moxos and Chiquitos, Bolivia; habits). — Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny, 

 Synop. Avium, 1839, 7 (Paraguay; Argentina; Bolivia). — Gould, Zool. 



*^ Eleven specimens from Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. 

 ^8 Seven specimens from Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina. 

 5^ No specimens from these Peruvian localities have been examined. It may 

 be that some of them are ■pichinchae Chapman. 



