740 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



FALCO SPABVERIUS PAULUS (Howe and King) 



Florida Sparrow Hawk 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race, but with the 

 dark spots on the underparts entu'elj'" (or in a few cases, nearly so) 

 confined to the sides leaving the center of abdomen and the breast 

 immaculate; size smaller. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of the nominate race, but usually 

 with the tail shorter, 



Juvenal male. — None seen. 



Juvenal female. — Like the adult, but with the ventral streaks darker, 

 sepia. 



Natal down. — None seen; not described. 



Adult male.—Wing 165-180 (171.3); tail 110-122 (115.8); culmen 

 from cere 11-12 (11.7); tarsus 33-37 (35.4); middle toe without claw 

 20-22 (20.9) mm.^^ 



Adult female.— ^Ymg 175-186 (179); tail 112-120 (117.1); culmen 

 from cere 12-13 (12.3); tarsus 32-36 (34.4); middle toe without claw 

 20-22 (21.2 mm.). ^5 



Range. — Resident throughout Florida, except on the lower keys 

 where it is not known to breed; also along the Gulf States to southern 

 Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, north to southern Georgia and 

 to extreme southern Tennessee (?). 



Type locality. — Miami, Fla. 



Falco sparverius (not of Linnaeus) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 13, part (Indian Key, Fla.). — Maynard, Birds Eastern North 

 America, 1881, 295, part (s. Florida). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 3G0, part.— Ridgway, Man. North 

 Amer. Birds, 1887, 252, part.— DuMont, Auk, xlviu, 1931, 250 (Pinellas 

 County, Fla.). 



Falco sparverius a. sparverius Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 349, part. 



Falco sparverius sparverius Mearns, Auk, ix, 1892, 258, part (Florida; crit.). — 

 Holt, Geol. Surv. Alabama, Mus. Paper No. 4, 1921, 56 (Alabama; res.; 

 food.; spec). — McIlhenny, Bird-Banding, viii, 1937, 121 (Avery Island, 

 La.; banding); xi, 1940, 109 (Avery Island, La.; breeding). 



Tinnunculus sparverius Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 13, part. — 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida). 



Cerchneis sparveria Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 277, part. 



Cerchneis sparveria sparveria Figgins, Auk, xl, 1923, 675 (Cameron Parish, La.). 



Tinnunculus sparverius var. isabellinus (not Falco isabellinus Swainson) Ridgwat, 



>• . Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1870, 149, part (Florida) ; Rod and Gun, 



■' |i^ vi, 1875, 109, in text, part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 193; Nom. North 



'• Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 420a.— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 215, 

 in text, part ("Gulf States"). 



(?) Falco {Tinnunculus) sparverius b. var. isabellinus Ridgway, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xvi, 1873, 48 ("Cuba?"; Georgia). 



" Fifteen specimens from Florida and Mississippi. 

 " Thirteen specimens from Florida. 



