JULY 31, 1901 VoL. II, pp. 67-69 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
ON AN APPARENTLY UNNAMED RACE OF 
BUTEO BOREALIS. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Very little is known of the red-tailed hawk in Florida, and 
although it appears in many of the lists of birds of the State, 
specimens are not to be found in most collections. It is, how- 
ever, probable that the common Eastern form (Luteo borealis 
borealis) occasionally reaches Florida in winter, but the one 
breeding bird that I have seen from South Florida belongs to a 
quite different race. This specimen was taken by O. Tollin at 
Myakka, Manatee Co., in April, 1888. A comparison of this 
skin with a description published by Mr. Frank M. Chapman? 
of a red-tailed hawk collected by himself in Cuba, where, Mr. 
Chapman says, the bird is not uncommon, leaves little doubt that 
the red-tailed hawks of South Florida and of Cuba are the same. 
Perhaps the real home of this bird is Cuba, and its occurrence 
in South Florida is hardly more than casual, as is the case with 
some other Cuban birds,— for example, the Cuban sparrow hawk 
and the Cuban martin. 
A red-tailed hawk also occurs in Jamaica, and may or may not 
be the same; and in this connection there is to be considered 
one of the extremely troublesome old names, 4alco jamaicensis 
1 Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, p. 249, 1892. Description of a specimen 
doubtfully referred to Buteo borealis calurus. 
