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Adult jemale.~Wmg 207-215 (211.6); tail 127-140 (131.1); ciilmeu 

 from cere 13-15 (14.2); tarsus 38-42 (39.9); middle toe without claw 

 32-38.5 (34.4 mm.)." 



Range. — Breeds in western British Columbia (Okanagan Valley; 

 Chilli wack; Comox, Clayoquot; Yellowhead Lake, between Alta and 

 Nita Lakes, the Queen Charlotte Islands — Cumshewa Inlet; Massett; 

 Vancouver Inland; Victoria; Cameron and Central Lakes) .^^ 



Winters southward through Washington (Shoalwater Bay; Fort 

 Steilacoom; Walla Walla, Cape Disappointment; Seattle; Tacoma); 

 and Oregon (Fort lOamath; Netarts Bay, Scio, Seaside) ; to Cahfornia 

 (Yeeka, Siskiayou County; Mount Shasta; Claremont, Los Angeles 

 County; San Francisco Bay) and to New Mexico (La Jara Lake) and 

 Colorado (Weldona). Occasionally to Wisconsin (Moon Lake and 

 Cedar Grove). 



Erroneously said to winter south to Venezuela. 



Type locality. — Shoalwater Bay and Fort Steilacoom, Wash. 



Falco columbarius (not of Linnaeus) Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R, 

 Surv., xii, book 2, chapt. 3, 1860, 142, part (Straits of Fuca and Fort Steila- 

 coom, Wash.).— (?) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 418 (Vancouver Island) .—(?) Miller, 

 in Chaney, Miller, and Dice, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 349, 1925, 99 

 (Rancho La Brea; bones). — Cushing, Condor, xliii, 1941, 70, in text (Quesnel 

 Lake, British Columbia; feeding habits). — Burdick, Condor, xlvi, 1944, 239 

 (n. Cascade Mountains, Wash.). — Munro, Condor, xlviii, 1946, 182, in text 

 (Redstone, w. of Williams Lake, Brit. Columbia; nesting). 



Falco columbarius suckleyi Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 201 (Shoalwater 

 Bay, Wash.; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Coues, Check List North Amer. Birds, 

 1873, Append., 133 (No. 344a); ed. 2, 1882, No. 506.— Brewster, Auk, vii[ 

 1882,230 (Walla Walla, Wash.; crit.; descr. adult male).' — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 357a; ed. 3, 1910, 

 165; ed. 4, 1931, 76.— Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1893, 40 

 (Victoria, Brit. Columbia). —Brooks, Auk, xvii, 1900, 105 (Brit. Columbia, 

 both sides of Cascade Mountains); xxxiv, 1917, 39 (Chilliwack, Brit. Colum- 

 bia; not breeding); Auk, xl, 1923, 701 (15 miles n. of Osoyoos Lake, Brit. 

 Columbia).— KoBBE, Auk, xvii, 1900, 352 (Cape Disappointment, Wash., 

 Apr. 23).— Osgood, North Amer. Fauna, No. 21, 1901, 43 (Cumshewa Inlet, 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, June 14; Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands). — 

 EcKSTROM, Auk, xix, 1902, 383 [ — 385] (descr. adult male from near Fort 

 Klamath, Oreg., May 9, 1883). — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 3, 1902, 

 33 (Cahfornia; rare winter vis. in n. part); No. 8, 1912, 10 (California); No. 

 11, 1915, 68 (Yreka, Siskiyou County, Calif., Oct.; Mount Shasta, Aug. 8; 

 Claremont, Los Angeles County, Dec. 6, 1895).' — Rathbun, Auk, xix, 1902, 

 1902, 134 (Seattle, Wash.).— Woodcock, Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 68, 

 1902, 35 (Oregon range).— Bowles, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 143 (Tacoma, Wash., 

 res.); Condor, xxi, 1919, 239 (Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 8). — Dawson and 

 Bowles, Birds Washington, ii, 1909, 536 (Washington; distr.; habits).— 

 Kermode, Prov. Mus. Victoria, 1909, 45 (Vancouver Island and portions of 



" Fourteen specimens from Alaska, British Columbia, and Wisconsin. 



«* Two specimens seen from Alaska (Twin Points; Toklat River), not breeding. 



