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Mountains; Springerville ; La Osa; Gila City; Yuma); New Mexico 

 (Santa Fe; Santa Rosa; Lake Burford; San Augustine Plains; Magda- 

 lena; Fair View; Gila River; Lamy; La Bajada Hill; Beaver Lake; 

 Chloride; between Tres Piedras and Taos; Las Vegas; Big Hatchet 

 Mountains; between Roswell and Capitan Mountains); Oklahoma 

 (rare resident in western part of State — Black Mesa; Red River, 

 Harmon County; rare transient and winter visitant in rest of State); 

 Texas (Austin; Red River); to Baja California (Miraflores; San Jose 

 del Cabo; Cape San Lucas; San Esteban; Comondii, Santa Margarita 

 Island; Guadalupe Island; San Luis Island; El Rosario; San Felipe; 

 San Telmo; Vallecitos; Sierra San Pablo Martir). 



In winter the species is partly migratory, some of the northern breed- 

 ers wandering southward, but birds are seen throughout the winter 

 as far north as southern British Columbia; south to the northern half 

 of the mainland of Mexico (Monterrey; Sonora — San Domingo; 

 Hermosillo; Zacatecas; Durango; Agua Caliente; Nuevo Leon; Chihua- 

 hua; Tamaulipas). 



Casual east to Manitoba; eastern Minnesota; Illinois (Rock Island; 

 Wabash County; Lawrence County); Indiana (Sullivan County); 

 Missouri (Marysville — breeding) ; and Iowa (Black Hawk; Buena Vista; 

 Mills — Pottawattamie; Honey Creek Lake; JSIills County; Lake 

 Okoboji; Story County), and to Oaxaca. 



Type locality. — Mexico= Monterrey (Swann, Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 



1922, 207). 



Falco mexicanus Schlegel, Abh, Geb. Zool., Heft 3, 1850, 15 (Mexico; coll. 

 Berlin Mus.); Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, No. 2, livr. 1, 1862, 18 (Monterrey, Mexico). 

 — Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 24. — Pelzeln, Ueb. Geier und Falk., 

 ii, 1863, 19.— CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 213; Check-List North 

 Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 343; ed. 2, 1882, 534, No. 502.— Ridgway, Amer. 

 Nat., vi, 1872, 430, in text (Wabash County, 111., 1 spec, July 1871); Man. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1887, 247; Orn. Illinois, 1, 1889, 429.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 121. — McCauley and Coues, U. S. Geol. 

 and Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 3, 1877, 682 (Red River, Tex.; nesting; meas.).— 

 GuRNEY; Ibis, 1882, 447 [451], (crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check-list, 18S6 and ed. 2, 1889, No. 355; ed. 3, 1910, 164; ed. 4, 1931, 74.— 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi Valley, 1888, 118 (Mississippi Valley localities) ; 

 Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 37, 1897, 76 (Colorado; distr.).— Goss, Hist. 

 Birds Kansas, 1891, 280 (Kansas; res.; descr.; habits; eggs). — Merriam, 

 North Amer. Fauna, No. 5, 1891, 95 (Blackfoot Mountains and Birch Creek 

 Valley, Idaho; breeding). — Fisher, Hawks and Owls United States, 1893, 

 104. — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," 

 vii, 1894, 223 (Mexico).— Dawson, Auk, xiv, 1897, 174 (Okanogan County, 

 Wash.; breeding); Birds California (stud, ed.), iii, 1923, 1608 (genl.; Cali- 

 fornia).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 256 (Kansas; 

 rare res.). — Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 105 (lower Frazer Valley, Brit. Colum- 

 bia).— McGregor, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 2, 1901, 6 (Santa Cruz County, 

 Calif.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1901, 115 

 (Hermosilla, Sonora; Aguas Calientas, Zacatecas). — Bailey, Handb. Birds 



