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Range. — Breeds and is resident from southern Texas (San Antonio, 

 Eagle Pass, Giddings, Brownsville, Cameron, Hidalgo, and Refugio 

 Counties, Corpus Ciiristi) south tlirough most of Mexico except the 

 northwest (Jahsco, Colima, Oaxaca, etc.), Guatemala, Nicaragua (San 

 Rafael del Norte), Costa Rica (San Jose, La Palma de Nicoya, Rio 

 Matina, etc.), and Panama (Santa Fe de Veragua, Almirante) to 

 northern Venezuela (Margarita Island), Colombia (La ALinuelita), 

 and western Ecuador (Chone, Puna Island, Casanga). 



Casual in Louisiana and Mississippi (between Bayou Sara and 

 Natchez, and islands off the coast). 



Accidental in Iowa (Hillsboro, Van Buren County), and Ohio (near 

 Harrisburg) . 



Type locality. — Between Bayou Sara and Natchez, Miss. 



Buieo harrisi Audubon, Birds Amer., fol. ed., 1837, pi. 392 (Mississippi). — Bona- 

 parte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 3. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr. 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1900, 56, part (Mexican localities other than in Lower 

 California, Sonora, and Sinaloa; San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua; La Palma 

 de Nicoj-a and San Jose, Costa Rica; Santa F6 de Veraguas, Panama). 



Buteo harrisii Aubudon, Sj^nopsis, 1839, 5 (Mississippi) ; Birds Amer., 8vo. ed., i, 

 1840, 25, pi. 5. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 

 ed. 2, 1840, 111. 



Buieo unicindus harrisi CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 215; Check-List 

 North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 348; in Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. 

 Terr., Bull. 5, No. 1, 1878, 42 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, s. Texas) ; Check-List 

 North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 512; Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 

 1884, 542. 



Falco harrisii Audubon, Orn. Biogr., v, 1839, 30 (between Bayou Sara, La., and 

 Natchez, Miss.). 



Craxirex harrisii Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1870, 142. 



Craxirex unicinctus var. harrisii Lawrence, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 

 1874, 302, in part (Tepee; Colima). 



Parabuteo harrisi Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 251, sub-fig.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 247, in part. 



Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 250, part (diagnosis) ; Man. North Amer. 

 Birds, 1887, 229, part.— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 404 (La 

 Palma de Nicoya, Costa Rica; habits). — Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 viii, 1885, 112 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 126 (San 

 Jose, Costa Rica). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 

 No. 335; ed. 2, 1895, 129; ed. 3, 1910, p. 157; ed. 4, 1931, 69, part.— Sennett, 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 26 (descr. young and downy young). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, 1890, 322 (Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding); xxxvi, 

 1917, 241 (La Manuelita, Colombia; crit.); Iv, 1926, 223 (distr.; Ecuador).— 

 Cherrie, Auk, vii, 1890, 333 (San Jose, Costa Rica); ix, 1892, 328 (San 

 Jos(5). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 233 (San Antonio, Tex., common res.). — 

 Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 202, pi. 6, figs. 3, 4.— Coombs, 

 Auk, ix, 1892, 205 (Calumet Plantation, St. Mary Parish, La., Oct.).— 

 Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1892, 105 (Corpus Christi, Tex., 

 common). — Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 99 (coast 

 of Louisiana and larger islands). — Bailey, Handbook Birds Western United 



