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Adult female.— Yilmg 455-^83 (466.6); tail 206-220 (212); culmen 

 from cere 35-38 (36); tarsus 68-77 (72.6); middle toe without claw 

 44-45 (44.7 mm.).^° 



Range. — Resident in the Bahama Islands (Andros, Aucklin, Cat, 

 Fortune, Abaco, Long, Great Inagua, Ragged, Inagua, New Provi- 

 dence, Grand Caicos, East Caicos, West Caicos, and North Caicos 

 Islands; Whale, Booby, Fish, and Water Cays) and the coasts of 

 Yucatan (eastern Quintana Roo) and of northern British Honduras 

 (Hicks Key, Ascension Bay, and near Boca de Paila). Once seen 

 off the coast of Hispaniola (off Cape Enganos). 



Type locality. — Andros Island, Bahamas. 



Pandion carolinensis (not Falco carolinensis Gmelin) Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vii, 1859, 104 (Bahamas; habits). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1861, 50 (Bahamas).— Salvin, Ibis, 1864, 378, 385 (Saddle Cay, Half Moon 

 Cay, and Tobacco Cay, off British Honduras). — Boxhote, Ibis, 1903, 297 

 (Andros Island, Bahamas, breeding; crit.; molt; habits). 



Pandion haliaetus (not Falco halia'etus Linnaeus) Cory, Birds Bahama Islands, 

 1880, 131 (Long Island; Whale Key; Ragged Islands); rev. ed., 1891, no 

 paging. — BoNHOTE, Avicult. Mag., new ser., i, 1902, 59, 60 (Bahamas; 

 habits; photo of nest at Spanish Wells, Andros). 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885 and rev. ed., 

 1886, 22, part (Bahamas); Auk, iv, 1887, 38, part (Bahamas); Birds West 

 Indies, 1889, 196, part (Bahamas); Auk, viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands, 

 Bahamas), 351 (Inagua Island, Bahamas); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 99, part (New Providence, Aklin, North Caicos, Grand Caicos, East Caicos, 

 and Great Inagua Islands, Bahamas). — Chapman, Amer. Nat., 1891, 530 

 (Bahamas; breeds). 



tPandion haliaetus subsp. Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 419 

 (Tela, Honduras; crit.). — Wetmore, Auk, Iv, 1938, 52 (bone fragment; 

 Crooked Island, Bahamas). 



Pandion Ridgioeir (typog. error) IMaynard, Amer. Exchange and IMart. iii, 

 Jan. 15, 1887, 33. 



Pandion ridgwayi Mayxard, Amer. Exchange and Mart, Feb. 5, 1887, 69 (Andros 

 Island, Bahamas; coll. C. J. Maynard). 



Pandion haliaetus ridgivayi Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 354 (Long Island, Bahamas); 

 in Shattuck, Bahama Islands, 1905, 362 (New Providence; Andros; Water 

 Cay; Long Island; Acklin, North Caicos; Great Caicos; East Caicos; Great 

 Inagua; breeds). — Todd and Worthington, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, 

 1911, 451 (Cat, Great Inagua, Acklin, Fortune, and Abaco Islands, Baha- 

 mas). — SwANN, Synop. Accip., pt. 4, 1922, 232. — Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Fauna, Nachtrag, i, 1923, 74 (a synonym of P. h. carolinensis!) . — Griscom, 

 Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 235, 1926, 13 (e. Quintana Roo, Yucatdn). — Phillips, 

 Verh. 6th Internat. Orn. Kongr., 1929, 517 (rare; said to be common; Yuca- 

 tJln and Brit. Honduras coasts). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 

 1931, 275 (distr.). — Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 155, 

 1931, 117 (habits; distr.; etc.; Hispaniola). — Bond, Birds West Indies, 

 1936, 73, in text (Bahamas; descr.), footnote (Dominican Republic), 414; 

 Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 25 (Bahamas; distr.) ; ed. 2, 1945, 25.— 



™ Three specimens from Bahamas (Fish Cay, Booby Cay, and Caicos Island). 



