48 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Subfamily CIRCINAE: Harriers 



Genus CIRCUS Lac^p^de 



Circus Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by subsequent designation, Falco 

 acruginosus Linnaeus (Lesson, 1828). 



Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus) : Marsh Hawk 

 Falco cyaneus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. i, 1766, p. 126. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon, Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon ; McKit- 

 trick, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Family PANDIONIDAE : Ospreys 



Genus PANDION Savigny 



Pandion Savigny, Descr. figypte, Ois., vol. i, 1809, pp. 69, 96. Type, by 

 monotypy, Pandion fluznalis Savigny ^ Falco haliaetus Linnaeus. 



Pandion haliaetus Linnaeus : Osprey 

 Falco Haliaetus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 91. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Melbourne (stratum 2), 

 and Itchtucknee River, Florida. 



Family FALCONIDAE: Caracaras and Falcons 



Subfamily CARACARINAE: Caracaras 



Genus CARACARA Merrem 



Caracara Merrem, in Ersch and Gruber, Allg. Encycl. Wiss. Kiinste, vol. 15, 

 1826, p. 159. Type, by subsequent designation, Falco plancus Miller (Hell- 

 mayr and Conover, 1949). 



Caracara prelutosus prelutosus (Howard) 



Polybonts prelutosus Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 487, July 7, 

 1938, p. 226, pis. 1-3. 



Pleistocene : Seminole Field, Pinellas County, and Melbourne, Flor- 

 ida. Late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern County; Carpinteria, Santa 

 Barbara County; and Rancho La Brea (type locality), Los Angeles, 

 California.*'^ 



^'Recorded also from early Recent deposits at this site (Howard, H., and 

 Miller, A. H., Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 514, 1939, p. 43) and from 

 Quaternary deposits in Conkling Cavern, Organ Mountains, New Mexico. 



