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Range. — Breeds from northern Minnesota, South Dakota, southern 

 Wisconsin, central IlHnois, southern Indiana (formerly Ohio), and 

 North Carolina, to Florida, Alabama, Texas, and eastern Mexico; 

 winters south of the United States in Centi-al America (in Guatemala 

 known only as a migrant), and south as far as Ecuador (Bucay), the 

 winter range very imperfectly known; accidental or casual in New 

 Mexico, Colorado, southern Saskatchewar, southern Alanitoba; 

 Michigan, northern Wisconsin, Ontario, New Hampshire, Vermont, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 

 West Virginia, and Virginia; also in England and the Greater Antilles 

 (Cuba, Jamaica). 



Type locality. — Carolina. 

 Falco forficatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 89 (South Carolina; based 

 on Accipiter cauda furcata, The Swallow-tail Hawk, Catesby, Nat. Hist. 

 Carolina, i, 1731, 4, pi. 4), in America=South Carolina). 

 Nauclerus forficatus Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1870, 144; 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1873, 52 [26 of reprint] (lower Wabash 

 Valley) ; Amer. Nat., vii, 1873, 200, in text (Fox Prairie, Richland County, 

 111. ; habits) ; in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 

 1874, 192; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, x, 1874, 380 (Illinois).— Trippe, 

 Comm. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 113 (Minnesota; rather common). — Coues, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 332.— Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 118 (once 

 common in ne. Illinois); ix, 1877, 42 (Mt. Carmel, 111.), 49 (s. Illinois: Fox 

 Prairie, Richland County), 57 (Cairo, 111.; numerous), 65 (s. Illinois). — 

 Merriam, Birds Connecticut, 1877,77 (rare straggler; formerly common n, to 

 Vermont, where said to have been winter res.). — Berier, Bull. Nuttall Orn. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 126 (s. shore Long Island, 1 spec, in 1845). — Chadbournb, 

 Quart. Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, ii, 1883, 16 (Amesbury, Mass., 1 spec, Sept. 

 25). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 284 (se. South Dakota, summer res.). 

 Elanoides forficatus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1875, 345 (Bar- 

 tram's notes); Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 147 (Fort Sisseton, S. Dak., 

 through winter of 1877-78); Check List North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, 

 No. 493; Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 61 (West Newbury, Essex 

 County, Mass., 1 spec, Sept. 1882); Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 

 526. — Ridgway, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, Bull. No. 2, 1876, 

 181 (Monogr.); Nom. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 426; Bull. Illinois State 

 Lab. Nat. Hist., No. 4, 1881, 189 (Illinois); Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 

 224; Orn. lUinois, i, 1889, 444.— Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. 

 Terr. Bull. No. 4, 1878, 42 (se. Texas); No. 5, 1879, 419 (Corpus Christi, Tex., 

 March 21).— Gibbs, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Bull. No. 5, 1879, 490 

 (Michigan). — Langdon, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., 1879, 14 (Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio; former summer visitant). — Wheaton, Bull. Nuttall Orn. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 62 (near Columbus, Ohio, 1 spec, Aug. 22, 1878); Rep. 

 Birds Ohio, 1882, 418, 579 (Ohio; syn.; descr.; hist.; range).— Nehrling, 

 Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 173 (Houston, etc., Tex.; habits); Warbler, 

 ser. 2, i, 1905, 36-41 (habits, etc).— Talbot, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 59 (near Jamestown, S. Dak., several seen Nov. 14, 1881). — Trombley, 

 Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 250 (Munroe County, Mich., 1 pair, June 

 19, 1882).— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 22 (Cuba; 

 Jamaica); Auk, iv, 1887, 46 (Cuba; Jamaica); Birds West Indies, 1889, 204; 



