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Range. — Breeds from eastern Mackenzie (Grandin River, Fort 

 Norman; Fort Good Hope); eastern Saskatchewan; northeastern 

 Manitoba (Fort Churchill); northern Ontario (Missinaibi River, 

 Mattagami River, and Moose Factory) ; and central Quebec (Mingan 

 Islands, Piashti Bay, and probably Natashquam River in Canadian 

 Labrador) ; east to Quebec, Prince Edward Island (North River) ; Nova 

 Scotia (Kentville) ; Newfoundland (Humber River) ; Maine, and the 

 eastern seaboard of the United States; south to northern Florida (as 

 far south in Florida as Gainesville) ; the Gulf coast; eastern and central 

 Texas; northeastern Oklahoma; Arkansas, central and eastern Missouri, 

 Iowa, and eastern and north central Minnesota; intergrading with 

 calurus in northern Minnesota and the Dakotas, and along the western 

 limits of its range south to central Texas. 



Winters from Kansas, eastern Nebraska, southern Ontario, north- 

 eastern Iowa, southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and central New York 

 and Massachusetts to the Gulf coast (and to northeastern Mexico?) ; 

 casual in winter north to northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, southern 

 Ontario, and northern New England. 



Accidental in Bermuda (may possibly have been a breeding resident 

 formerly ?), and in England(?) (Nottinghamshire). 



Type locality. — Carolina. 



Falco horealis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 266 (North America; based on 

 American Buzzard Latham, Synopsis Birds, i, 1781, 50; Red-tailed Falcon 

 Pennant, Arctic ZooL, ii, 1785, 205).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 25; Gen. 

 Hist. Birds, i, 1821, 265.— Daudin, Traitd d'Orn., ii, 1800, 157.— Tukton, 

 Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 151.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 112.— Wilson, 

 Amer. Orn., vi, 1812, 75, pi. 52, fig. "1" (error for fig. 2 on plate) . — Bonaparte, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii, pt. 2, 1824, 347 (Obs. Wilson's 

 Amer. Orn., 1826, [7]); iv, pt. 2, 1825, 269 (crit.); Obs. Wilson's Amer. Orn., 

 1826, 128; Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, pt. 1, 1826, 32; pt. 2, 1828, 

 434 (crit.); Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 11. — Audubon, Orn. Biogr., i, 

 1831, 265, pi. [51]; v, 1839, 378.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and 

 Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 102.— Peaeody, Rep. Orn. Massachusetts, 1839, 

 268. 



Buteo horealis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 468, 478. — Stephens, 

 in Shaw's Gen. ZooL, xiii, pt. 2, 1826, 47.— Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn., 1831, 

 79. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 1831, 50. — Audu- 

 bon, Synopsis, 1839, 6; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., i, 1840, 32, pi. 7. — Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, ed. 2, 1840, 102. — 

 GiRAUD, Birds Long Island, 1844, 3 (Long Island, N. Y.; habits). — Kaup, 

 Isis, 1847, 332 (monogr.), 369, 373, 380; in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 

 76. — Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 19; Rev. Mag. ZooL, vi, 1854, 

 533. — PucHERAN, Rev. Mag. ZooL, ii, 1850, 214 (crit. nomencL). — Barrt, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 1854, 1 (Wisconsin; abund.). — Cassin, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1855, 279, part (crit.); in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 25.— Brewer, North Amer. OoL, i, 1857, 21, 

 pi. 2, figs. 16, 17, 17a. — Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 16. — Baird, 

 Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 23. — Brtant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 



