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foundland, south to southern Cahfornia (near San Diego) and the 

 northern half or so of Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, 

 Guerrero), Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, IlHnois, 

 Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia; migration periodic and 

 irregular. 



Casual in Florida (near Tallahassee, Lake lomonia, and Maximo 

 Point, Pinellas Peninsula). 



Accidental in Ireland (Strabane, County Tyrone; and Galtee 

 Mountains, Tipperary) ; Scotland (Shechallion, Perthshire) ; and 

 England (Parsonstown ; Scilly Islands) . 



Type locality. — Near Philadelphia, Pa. 



Falco novae-terrae Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 274 (Newfoundland; based 

 on New Foundland Falcon Latham, Synop. Birds, 1, 1781, 79. Pennant, 

 Arctic Zool., 1785, ii, 178, 201).— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, 1809, 147 (New- 

 foundland). 



Falco gentilis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 270, part. 



Falco atricapillus Wilson, Amer. Orn., vi, 1812, 80, pi. 52, fig. 3 (near Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; coll. Peale's Mus.).— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 109.— 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii, pt. 2, 1824, 346; Obs. 

 Wilson's Amer. Orn., 1826 [7], [239].— Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States 

 and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 85. — Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., xxxix, 1891, 

 249 (n. Pacific coast. North America). 



Sparvhis atricapillus Vieillot, Encycl. Meth., iii, 1823, 1274. 



Hierofalco atricapillus Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 323. 



Astur atricapillus Bonaparte, Oss. Cuvier, Regne Anim., 1830, 33; Geogr. and 

 Gomp. List, 1838, 5; Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 31; Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 

 538. — Jardine and Selby, lUustr. Orn., iii, 1835, pi. 121.— Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, ed. 2, 1840, 87. — Kaup, in 

 Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 66. — Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vii, 1855, 279; in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 15 (Port Town- 

 send, Fort Steilacoom, and Shoalwater Bay, Washington; Dallas, Oreg.; 

 Nelson River, Hudson Bay). — Brewer, North Amer. Ool., i, 1857, 17, pi. 1, 

 fig. 5.— Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. 4, 1857, 74 (San Fran- 

 cisco and s. California). — Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, 1 (Trinity 

 Valley, n. Calif.).— Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 14, part.— 

 Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, book 2, pt. 3, 1860, 

 144 (Fort Dallas, Oreg.; Fort Steilacoom, Washington; habits). — Verrill, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 140 (Oxford County, Maine, breeding). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1866, 280 (vicinity New York 

 City). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., i, 1869, 271 

 (Sitka, Nulato, on Yukon River and Kuskoquim, Alaska; descr. nest and 

 eggs).— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 269; Ibis, 1870, 292 (Sechallion, Perthshire, 

 Scotland, winter 1869).— Brooke, Ibis, 1870, 538 (Galtee Mountains, 

 Ireland, Feb. 1870); Zoologist, 1871, ser. 3, vi, 2525 (Ireland).— Cooper, 

 Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 467. — Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1870, 141; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1874, 28, 329 

 (lower Wabash Valley, rare winter vis.) ; Field and Forest, 1877, 210 (Boulder 

 County, Colo., breeding); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 193; Nom. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 433; Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 228.— Coues, 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 212; Check List North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 



