BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 703 



Iliamna, Unalaska, Stikine Valley); Northwest Territories (Anoik, 

 Old Crow River, Great Bear Lake, Hill River, Great Slave Lake, Fort 

 Rae, Fort Simpson, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution); to British 

 Columbia (east of the Cascades and coast ranges — Cascade, Atlin, 

 Thudade Lake) ; Alberta (Lake Athabaska, Fort McMurray) ; northern 

 Saskatchewan (Lake Athabaska); south in the mountains through 

 Washington (east of the Cascades) and Oregon (Fremont) to Mon- 

 tana (Flathead Lake) and probably to Idaho. 



Migrates across western and south central to southeastern United 

 States to its winter quarters. Much less common in the East than 

 in the West. (Recorded as a migrant from Idaho, Oregon, JMon- 

 tana, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, east to Wisconsin.) 



Winters from Cahfornia (Stockton, Calipatria, Petaluna, Santa 

 Clara, etc.) ; Nevada (Truckee Meadows) ; New Mexico (Pecos River, 

 Shiprock, Tularosa, Albuquerque, Silver City, etc.); Colorado; 

 Texas (Comstock); south to Baja California (La Paz, San Jose del 

 Cabo, Santiago, Santo Domingo, San Ram(5n, El Valle de la Trinidad, 

 San Ignacio) and northern Mexico (Tamaulipas — Matamoros and 

 Camargo; Sinaloa — Mazatlan, Tres Marias Islands). Casual in 

 winter to Louisiana; Florida (Key West, Tortugas Keys); South 

 Carohna (Mount Pleasant) ; the Bahamas (Abaco, New Providence) ; 

 ? Jamaica; ? Grenada; and ? Swan Island. 



Type locality.— Fort Walla Walla, Wash. 



Falco columbarius (not of Linnaeus 1758) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., ii, 1831, 35, part (Great Bear Lake). — Audubon, Orn. Biog., Phila- 

 delphia ed., i, 1831, 466, pi. 92, part; v. 1839, 368, part; Synopsis, 1839, 16, 

 part; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., i, 1840, 88, pi. 21, part. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. 

 United States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 60, part; ed. 2, 1840, 60, part.— 

 Gambell, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, i, 1847, 27 (coast of upper 

 California); Arch, fur Naturg., 1848, 87 (upper California). — Heermann, 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, ii, 1853, 260 (common, California). — 

 Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 9, part. — Baird, Rep. 

 U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 3 (El Paso, Tex.; Colorado River, 

 Calif.). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, book 2, pt. 3, 

 1860, 142, part (California in Oct. and Nov.). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 ii, No. 2, livr. 1, 1862, 19, part (monogr.) ; No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, 37, part.— 

 Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 43 (nw. Canada; descr. nest). — Cooper, Orn. Cali- 

 fornia, Land Birds, 1870, 480.— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 214, 

 part; Check List North Amer. Birds, 1873, No. 344, part; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 345, part; Check List North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 505, part; 

 Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 536, part. — Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 v, 1873, 186 (Colorado) ; vii, 1875. 10 (w. Nevada; summer), 13 (Carson, Nev.; 

 winter), 38 (Nevada, breeding) ; Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 578 (Truckee Mead- 

 ows, Nev.); Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 250, part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xvi, 1893, 664 (Kodiak Island, Alaska, Aug. 15). — Allen, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xvii, 1874, 34 (Montana and Dakota; Yellowstone and Heart 

 Rivers). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 408, part (Fort Simpson); 



