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Costa Rica (San Jose, Orosi, Alajuela, Cartago, Reventazon, Jim6nez, 

 Guayabo, Coliblanco, Talamanca, Aliravalles, Irazii, Juan Vinas, La 

 Palma, Gulf of Nicoya) ; to Panama (common throughout — Santa Fe 

 de Veraguas, Calabre; Volcdn de ChiriquI; Quebrada Nigua; Almi- 

 rante; Banana River; Gatun; La Bosca; etc.); and to the Bahama 

 Islands (Andros, New Providence, Great Stirrup Key, Acldin, Great 

 Inagua, Abaco). 



Type locality. — South Carolina. 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., cd. 10, pt. 1, 1758, 90 (America, i. e., 

 South Carolina; based on Accipiter minor, The Liitle Hawk, Catesby, Nat. 

 Hist. Carolina, i, 1731, 5, pi. 5) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 128.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 i, 1790, 42.— Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, 1809, 199, pi. 26, part. — Wilson, Amer. 

 Orn., ii, 1810, 117, pi. 16, fig. 1; iv, 1811, pi. 32, fig. 2.— Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 99, part (Carolina); Encycl. M6th., iii, 1824, 1234, 

 part. — Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, iii, pt. 2, 1824, 343; 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, pt. 1, 1826, 27; Obs. Wilson's Amer. Orn., 

 1826, 4, [239]; Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 10.— Stephens, in Shaw's 

 Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 2, 1826, 38 (North America). — Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 

 2, i, 1829, 322. — Audubon, Birds Amer., fol. ed., 1831, pi. 142; 8vo ed., i, 

 1840, 90, pi. 22; Orn. Biogr., ii, 1834, 246 [pi. 142]; v, 1839, 370; Synopsis, 

 1839, 17. — Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 95, part. — Swainson and Richard- 

 son, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 1831, 31, pi. 24.— Nuttall, Man. United States 

 and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 58; ed. 2, 1840, 62, 821.— Townsend, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, viii, 1839, 151 (nw. United States).— Vigors, 

 Zool. Voy. Blossom, 1839, 15 (Monterey, Calif.). — Peabody, Orn. Massa- 

 chusetts, 1841, 69.— DeKay, Zool. New York, ii, 1844, 16, pi. 7.— Giraud, 

 Birds Long Island, 1844, 16 (Long Island, N. Y.; not very plentiful).— 

 Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 81 (Bermuda, autumnal visitor). — Hurdis, 

 in Jardin's Contr. Orn., 1850, 37 (Bermuda). — Baird, in Stansbury's Rept. 

 Great Salt Lake, 1852, 325 (New Mexico); Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, 

 No. 13. — Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, 52 (crit.). — Hot, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 305 (Wisconsin).— Read, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 395 (Ohio).— Wailes, Geol. Surv, Mississippi, 1854, 

 320 (Mississippi). — Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vii, 1855, 

 307 (New Mexico); xi, 1859, 104 (New Mexico).— Kennicott, Trans. Illinois 

 Agr. Soc, i, 1855, 581 (Illinois). — Haymond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, viii, 185G, 287 (Franklin County, Ind.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1857, 125 (California). — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 13.— Maximillian, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1858, 15 (upper Missouri 

 River) .—Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 13.— Bland, Ann. Rep. 

 Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 289 (Bermuda).— Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1859, 212 (Bermuda). — Willis, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 

 281 (Nova Scotia, breeding). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ii, book 2, 1860, 143 (Puget Sound, etc.. Wash.; The Dalles, Oreg.; 

 habits).— ScHLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii. No. 2, livr. i, 1862, 30 (monogr.) ; 

 No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, 45.— Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 44 (Red River Settlement; 

 Fort Carleton; interior nw. Canada). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Artill. Inst. Wool- 

 wich, iv, 1864, 110 (Brit. Columbia).— Brown, Ibis, 1868, 418 (Vancouver 

 Island).— CouEs, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xx, 1868, 82 (Arizona); 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 215; Check-list North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 



