FAMILY ACCIPITRIDAE 223 



Resident. Rare ; found in heavy forest in the Subtropical Zone ; re- 

 corded in western Chiriqui from Quiel, above Boquete, at 1,500 meters 

 elevation on the slopes of the volcano, and also near Boquete; in 

 Bocas del Toro, on the Rio Changena at 750 meters, and on the 

 Boquete Trail at 950 meters; in Los Santos, on Cerro Hoya at 1,200 

 meters; and in Darien, on Cerro Pirre, at 1,500 meters on the head 

 of Rio Limon. 



These are the only certain reports. The record in literature for a 

 specimen in the American Museum of Natural History, obtained from 

 J. H. Batty, marked "Isla Cebaco," an island of low elevation ofif 

 the mouth of Montijo Bay on the coast of southern Veraguas, is 

 certainly erroneous, like many others in collections that Batty sent 

 to Rothschild. The species is known only from the subtropical zone, 

 and the specimen probably came from near Boquete. 



Nothing is known to me of the nesting of this handsome species 

 or of its habits beyond the fact that it is a forest inhabitant. The 

 species ranges in mountain areas from Costa Rica through Panama 

 and western Colombia to Ecuador. 



Herbert Friedmann (Auk, 1935, p. 30), with limited material, 

 found that 4 seen from Ecuador appeared smaller than 6 others from 

 Costa Rica and Panama and separated the southern group on this 

 basis under the name Leucopternis princeps zhnmeri. Additional 

 material that I have seen from Panama does not support the size 

 difference described, as the bird appears variable in dimensions 

 throughout the range. 



HETEROSPIZIAS MERIDIONALIS MERIDIONALIS (Latham): 

 Savanna Hawk ; Gavilan Acanelado 



Falco meridionalis Latham, Index Orn., vol. 1, 1790, p. 3. (Cayenne.) 



Description. — Length 460 to 500 mm. A savanna species of reddish 

 brown plumage, with black tail banded with white. Adult, crown 

 rufous-brown, with shaft lines of black edged with gray ; sides of 

 head brownish gray, with shaft lines of neutral gray bordered nar- 

 rowly with buff ; hind neck cinnamon, barred narrowly with dark 

 neutral gray, becoming brownish gray on upper back, edged with 

 cinnamon bordered with dark neutral gray, and finally on rest of 

 back brownish gray, edged irregularly with cinnamon to bufif; wing 

 coverts rufous-brown, the middle and greater series dark gray 

 basally; primaries and secondaries rufous-brown tipped with black, 

 changing to brownish gray on inner secondaries, barred more or less 

 on inner webs with black; upper tail coverts variegated black and 

 cinnamon-brown, tipped with white ; tail black, with tip and a broad 



