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Cerchneis sparveria caribaearum Riley, Smiths. Misc. Coll., slvii, 1904, 282 



(Barbuda; Antigua; descr.; crit.). 

 Cerchneis sparveria carihhaearum Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ix, 1916, 305 



(Guadeloupe; habits). — Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 4, 1920, 155. 

 Cerchneis sparverius carribbaearum Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 4, 1922, 224. 

 Tinnunculus sparverius caribbaearum Ridgway, Rod and Gun, vi, July 3, 1875, 



105, in text.— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 622 (Grenada, res.). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius b. caribbaearum Gitbney, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 99 



(crit.). 

 Tinnunculus caribbaearum Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, 491 (Montserrat; habits). — 



ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, 326 (Dominica); 1893, 499 (Angu- 



illa).— GuRNEY, Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 28. 

 Tinnunculus caribaearum Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 172 (St. 



Thomas). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 92, in text. 

 Falco sparverius dominicensis Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 



North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 167 (St. Bartholomew; Puerto Rico). — Bond, 



Birds West Indies, 1936, 76, 80, in text, part (except Cuba, Isle of Pines), 



414, part; Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 27, part (all except Cuba and 



Hispaniola). — Danforth, Auk, liii, 1936, 100, in text (Mona Island; spec; 



meas.). — Davis, Wils. Bull., liii, 1941, 38 (Cuba; Cienfuegos; color phases). 

 Tinnunculus dominicensis Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 100 (St. Thomas; 



excl. syn.). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius var. dominicensis Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1870, 149 (diag.). 

 Cerchneis dominicensis Sharp^b, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 439 (St. Thomas; 



"St. Domingo"; excl. syn. part). 

 Falco sparverius Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 199, part. — Lesson, Traits 



d'Orn., 1831, 95, part (Antilles).— Sundevall, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1869, 



586 (St. Bartholomew). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius (not Falco sparverius Linnaeus) Newton and Newton, 



Ibis, 1859, 63, pi. 12 (St. Croix; descr. nest and eggs). — Cassin, Proc, Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xii, 1860, 374 (St. Thomas; crit.).— Taylor, Ibis, 



1864, 166 (Dominica). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, 273 (Santa 



Lucia; crit.); 1879, 765 (Montserrat). — Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1872, 652 (Santa Lucia; habits). 

 Tinnunculus? sparverius Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, xxii, 310 (Puerto 



Rico) . 

 Tinnunculus sparverius? Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, xxvi, 158 (Puerto 



Rico). 

 Cerchneis sparveria Wetmorb, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xlvi, 1922, 303 



(bones from caves in Puerto Rico). 

 Tinnunculus sparveroides (not Falco sparverioides Vigors) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 



Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1864, 97 (Sombrero). 

 Cerchneis sparveria loquacula Riley, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., xlvii, Nov. 8, 1904, 



284 (Vieques Island, Puerto Rico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Falco sparverius loquacula Wetmorb, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 31 (Puerto 



Rico, res.; habits; food); Auk, x.xxiv, 1917, 57 (Culebra Island; Puerto Rico; 



common res.; habits). — Struthers, Auk, xl, 1923, 471 (Puerto Rico). — 



Groebbels, Der Vogel, i, 1932, 274 (food). 

 Falco sparverius loquaculus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 303 (Puerto 



Rico and adjacent islands e. to the Anegada Passage). — Danforth, Journ. 



Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, xix, 1935, 447 (Virgin Islands, abundant on Culebra 



