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coast from San Jose to Soconusco) ; the Gulf States (southern Loui- 

 siana; Mississippi); and the Florida Keys (Marquesas Keys; Snipe 

 Key; Boca Grande; Upper Matecumbe; Key West; Tortugas). 



AVinters from southern United States (coastal southern California 

 (Farallon Island, Santa Cruz Island, San Diego, Colorado River, 

 Death Valley) ; southern Arizona (Salt River) ; southern Texas 

 (Rockport, Eagle Pass, Brownsville) and coastal Alabama; and 

 Florida (where rare in the northern part of the State during the winter)), 

 south through Mexico (Yucatdn, Colima, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Oaxaca, 

 etc.); Guatemala (abundant in winter); British Honduras (Belize); 

 El Salvador (Lake Olomega, Puerto del Triunfo, La Libertad, Barra 

 de Santiago); Nicaragua (San Juan del Sur, Great Corn Island); 

 Honduras (Holbox and Ruatan Islands); Costa Rica (Gudcimo); 

 Panama (Farfan, Perme, Obaldia) ; Swan Island ; to Colombia (Bonda, 

 Santa Marta) ; Venezuela (Guarico, Apure, Caicara, Culata, Orinoco 

 River); Trinidad; Cayenne; British Guiana; south to Brazil (Rio 

 Belmonte; Matto Grosso); Ecuador (Chone); Peru (Santa Lucia); 

 Paraguay (Lambare) ; Argentina (Tucumdn) ; and, casually, to 

 Chile (two records — Puerto Montt and Paine, south of Santiago). 

 Also to Cocos Island and the Galapagos Archipelago (Albemarle 

 and Chatham Islands) and to the West Indies (Bahamas?, Cuba, Isle 

 of Pines, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic (including lie a Vache 

 and Catalinita Islands); Mono; Puerto Rico (rare); Vieques; Culebra; 

 St. CroLx; Tortola; Salt Island; St. Kitts; Antigua; Dominica; St. 

 Lucia; Barbados; St. Vincent; Grenadines (Mustique, Bequia, 

 Union, Prune, Carriacou); Saba; Guadeloupe; Grenada); also to 

 Grand Cayman and to Bermuda. 



Accidental in Hawaii (Oahu, Kauai, Niihau) and in Greenland. 



Type locality. — No locality given= Carolina, ex references. 



Falco americanus (not of Boddaert, 1783) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 257. 



Aquila americana 'Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., i, 1816, 233; Ois. Am^r. 

 Sept., i, 1807, 31, pi. 4. 



Pandion americatius Vieillot, Gal. Ois., 1825, pi. 2.— Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. 

 Zool., xiii, pt. 2, 1826, 12. 



Falco haliaetos y carolinensis Gmelin, Sj-st. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 263 (Carolina = 

 South Carolina; based on Falco piscator antillarum et carolinensis BrLsson, 

 Orn., p. 105; Ascipiler piscatorius, the Fishing Hawk, Catesby, Nat. Hist. 

 Carolina, i, 1731, 2, pi. 2; etc.). 



Falco carolinensis Daudin, Trait6 d'Orn., ii, 1800, 69. — Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 

 1831, 46. 



Pandion carolinensis Audubon, Orn. Biogr., i, 1831, 415; Birds Amer., fol. ed. 

 1831, pi. 81. — Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 3; Consp. Gen. 

 Av., i, 1850, 16; Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 532. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 

 1847, 19. — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, p. Ixxx (Cuba). — Brewer, 

 North Amer. Ool., i, 1857, 53, pi. 3, figs. 33, 34.— Cassin, in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 44. — Maximilian, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, 11 

 (spec; Wabash River; Lehigh, Pa.; plum.). — Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. 



