638 BULLETIN 5 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Bathurst; Bernard Harbor, Coronation Gulf); northeastern and 

 northern Alaska (Point Barrow, Ugashik, Collinson Point, Yukon); 

 south to northern Labrador (Fort Chimo, Fort Nascopie, Ungava 

 Bay, Cape Chidley); and northern Newfoundland Labrador (Okak, 

 Nain, Hopedale, Ramah) in the east and to the Atlin region of British 

 Columbia in the west.^^ 



Winters more or less throughout its range but wanders very u-regu- 

 larly southward across Canada — Straits of Belle Isle, Nova Scotia, 

 Quebec, Montreal, Ontario, Manitoba (Aweme), British Columbia 

 (Fraser Eiver, Sumas Prau'ie, Kelowna), and Vancouver Island 

 (Comox) — to Newfoundland and the northern United States from 

 Maine (Eagle Island, East Waterford, South Winn, Cape Elizabeth, 

 Katahdin Iron Works, North Deering, Rockland, Brunswick, Spruce 

 Head); New Hampshire (Milford, Exeter); Massachusetts (Nor- 

 thampton, Boston, Breels Island, Essex, Stowe, Wayland, Melrose, 

 Newton, Ipswich); Rhode Island (Providence, Narragansett, Con- 

 anicut Island); Connecticut (Durham); New York (Auburn; Aurora; 

 Bellport, Long Island; Canandaigua; Flushing, Long Island; Monroe 

 County; New York City; Pond Quoque, Long Island; Rochester; 

 Rome; Schenectady; Troy; Westchester County); and Pennsylvania 

 (Lancaster County) ; to Ohio; Michigan (Sault Ste. Alarie) ; Wisconsin 

 (Prairie du Sac, Skunk Island); Minnesota (Minneapolis, Madison); 

 North Dakota (Red River Valley, Mandan, Vermillion); Nebraska 

 (Elk Creek) ; Kansas (Manhattan) ; Montana (Collins, Teton County) ; 

 Washington (Spokane, Chelan) ; Oregon (Scio) ; and the Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands, British Columbia. Also to Iceland, the Faroes, England, 

 Ireland, northern France and Germany (rarely), Netherlands, Belgium, 

 the Baltic states, and Portugal. 



Type locality. — Hudson Bay. 



Falco freti hudsonis Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 356 (Hudson Strait). 



Falco islandus Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, ii, Nos. 7, 8, 9. — Fabricius, Fauna 

 Groenlandica, 1780, 58, No. 35. — Latham, Synopsis, Suppl., i, 1787, 282. — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 271.—? Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb., 1803, 

 40.— TuRTON, Gen. Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 155.— Dresser, Orn. Misc., i, 1876, 

 190 (Labrador).— Merriam, Auk, ii, 1885, 315 (Point de Mouts and Godbout, 

 Quebec, Jan. and March, fide Comeau). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check-list, 1886, No. 353; ed. 2. 1895, 137; ed. 3, 1910. 163.— Ridgway, Man. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1887, 244.— Harvie-Brown, Auk, viii, 1891, 236 (Un- 

 gava Bay, Quebec). — Bendire, U. S. Nat. Mus. Spec. Bull. 1, 1892, 281 (Fort 

 Chimo, Quebec; ne.sting; winter). — Brewster, ed. Minot's Land and Game 

 Birds New England, 1895, 478 (New England records).— Nash, Check List 

 Birds Ontario, 1900, 30 (Ontario; accid.); Check List Vert. Ontario; Birds, 



38 It has been stated by several authors as probable that the breeding form on 

 Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Land may be the same as the Greenland form, but 

 of this no confirmation or proof lias been forthcoming. The birds of those islands 

 may well be intermediate between typical rusticolus and uralensis. 



