BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 603 



Finca El Cipre, Diienas, Escuintla, San Jose de Guatemala); Hon- 

 duras (San Pedro, coastal area); Nicaragua (Chinandega, San Juan 

 del Sur, Sucsuya) ; Costa Rica (San Jose, Alajuela, Volcdn de Mira- 

 valles, Guanacaste, Puntaarenas) , and Panama to the Canal Zone 

 (Veragua, Pacheca Island, Bay of Panama) ; also in Cuba (Palo Alto, 

 San Pablo) and the Isle of Pines (Nueva Gerona). 



Occasional in California (Monterey), southern New Mexico fFort 

 Thorn, Mesquite), Oldahoma (Mulberry Creek), southern Louisiana, 

 and South Carolina, and on the coast of Washington. Accidental in 

 Ontario (Port Arthur) and New York (Long Island). 



Type locality. — Florida. 



Polyborus vulgaris (not of Spix, 1824) Audubon, Orn. Biogr., ii, 1834, 350, pi. 

 161. — d'Orbignt, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, Spanish ed., 

 p. 26, French ed., p. 9. — Vigors, Zool. Voy. Blossom, 1839, 15, part. — 

 Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1859, 6 (Indian River, Fla.; 

 meas.). — Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Polyhorxis brasiliensis (not Falco brasiliensis Gmelin) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1837, 108 (Mexico); Comp. and Geogr. List, 1838, 2. — Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, ed.2,1840, 52.— Denny, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, 38 (Cuba; Jamaica). — Poey, Mem. Real Soc. 

 Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 2, 1848, 100 (Cuba). — Brewer, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii. No. 9, 

 livr. 2, 1863, 2, part (monogr.) ; No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, 137, part.— Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, No. 3, 1871, 337 (e. Florida). 



Polyborus braziliensis Audubon, Orn. Biogr., v, 1839, 351; Synopsis, 1839, 4 

 (Texas; Florida); Birds Amer., 8vo ed., i, 1840, 21, pi. 4. — Woodhouse, Rep. 

 Sitgreaves Expl. Zuni and Colorado Rivers, 1853, 58. — Cassin, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 453 (s. North America). 



IMorphnus capistratus Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, ser. 2, vii, No. 1, 1843, 14 

 (Pacific coast of Central America) . 



Polyborus tharus (not Falco tharus Molina) Cassin, Illustr. Birds California, 

 Texas, etc., 1854, 113 (Texas); Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1855, 284 

 (Texas); in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 45. — Brewer, North 

 Amer. OoL, i, 1857, 58, pi. 2, figs. 18, 19.— Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 4 (Texas; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon); Cat. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 45. — Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. 4, 

 No. 2, 1859, 30 (Fort Yuma and Gila River, Ariz.; San Antonio and Medina 

 River, Tex.; habits). — Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, 105 

 (New Mexico). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 368 (Jalapa, Vera- 

 cruz). — Sclater and Salvin, IbLs, 1859, 214 (Guatemala; habits) ; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1869, 252 (Veraguas, Panama); 1870, 838 (coast Honduras). — 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 223 (Honduras; habits). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1861, 322 (Cuba); Repert. Fisico Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-'66, 221.— Owen, Ibis, 

 1861, 67 (San Ger6uimo, Guatemala; descr. nest and eggs). — Salle and 

 Parzudaki, Cat. Oiseaux Mexique, 1862, 1 (Mexico). — Gurney, Descr. Cat. 

 Rapt. Birds Norfolk and Norwich Mus., pt. 1, 1864, 17 (Orizaba, Vera- 

 cruz; habits). — Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 329 (mouth of Rio Grande to Rio 

 Guadalupe; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). — Gray, Hand-hst, i, 1869, 6, 

 No. 35, part. — Boucard, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 21. 



