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Alabama (Montgomery, Autaugaville, Dothan, Anniston); Louisiana 

 (New Orleans) ; southern Texas (Brownsville) ; south through ^lexico 

 (Chietla, Puebla; San Diego; Chihuahua; Presidio de Mazatldn, 

 Sinaloa; Tres Marias Islands; Tepic; Plains of Colima; Valley of 

 Mexico; Orizaba, Veracruz; Nugeres and Cozumel Islands, Yucatan); 

 Honduras (Ruatan Island); Nicaragua (Chinandaga) ; Costa Rica 

 (San Jose); Panama (Lion Hill, Chiriqui, Calobre); Colombia 

 (Bogotd); northern Venezuela (Maruria, Culata, Lake Valencia, 

 Altagracia, Caicara); Trinidad; Tobago; to Ecuador (Esmeraldas, 

 Pintag, Chanar, Carapungo, Chaupicruz, Zambiza, Pomasqui, Quito, 

 Cuenca) ; and northern Peru (Trujillo) ; also the West Indies: Bahamas 

 (New Providence, Andros, Watling Island, Abaco, Green Cay); Cuba; 

 Isle of Pines; Jamaica (Spanish Town); Haiti (Cayemite Island, 

 Moustique, Puerto Plata, Samand Bay, Arroyo Savanna, ? Gonave 

 Island, Laguna de Haina, Monte Cristi, La Vega, Loma Rucillo, 

 Trujin, Lopez, Moca, Moline, Grande Cayemite Island, L'Atalye); 

 Puerto Rico (rare winter visitant; Quebradillas, Cartagena Lagoon, 

 Laguna de Guanica, Hacienda Catalina, Mayagiiez, Sabana Grande, 

 La Plata, Fajardo); St. Thomas; Virgin Gorda; Anguilla; St. Croix; 

 Antigua; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Dominica; Barbados; St. Vincent; 

 Carriacou, Grenada.®" 



Casual in winter north to Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 

 southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New England. 



Type locality. — America = Carolina, ex Catesby. 



Falco columharius Linnaetjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 90 (America, i. e., South 

 Carolina; based on Accipiier palumbarius, the Pigeon Hawk, Catesby, Nat. 

 Hist. Carohna, i, 1731, 3, pi. 3);ed. 12, i, 1766, 128.— Forstek, Philos. Trans., 

 Ixii, 1772, 382; Fauna Am6r. Sept., 1771, 9.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 

 1788, 281.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 44.— Daudin, Traits d'Orn., ii, 

 1800, 83.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 188.— Wilson, Amer. Orn., 

 ii, 1810, 107, pi. 15, fig. 3.— ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 104.— 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii, pt. 2, 1824, 344 (Obs. 

 Wilson's Amer. Orn.]; Ann Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, pt. 1, 1826, 28; 

 Gontr. Maclurian Lye, 1, 1827, 10; Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 4. — Cuvier, 

 Regne Anim., i, 1829, 322. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 

 ii, 1831, 35, part. — Jameson, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., i, 1831, 61. — Lesson, 

 Trait6 d'Orn., 1831, 92.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., Philadelphia ed., i, 1831, 

 466 [pi. 92); v, 1839, 368, part; Synopsis, 1839, 16, part; Birds Amer., 8vo 

 ed., i, 1840, 88, pi. 21, part. — Jardine, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., i, 1832, 

 254; Ann. Nat. Hist., xviii, 1846, 118 (Tobago); Contr. Orn., 1848, 81 

 (Bermuda, autumnal vis., sometimes winter res.). — Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 United States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 60; ed. 2, 1840, 60.~d'Orbigny, 

 in La Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, Spanish ed., 34, French ed., 

 23.— Peabody, Rep. Oru. Massachusetts, 1839, 261. — De Kay, Zool. 



"" There is a possibility that some of the records on which these localities are 

 listed may turn out, on examination of the specimens, to refer to F. c. bendirei, as 

 that form has been taken in some of the West Indian islands. 



