FALCONID.E — THE FALCONS. 



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obscure, except on inner webs. On the top of the head, the dusky is more confined to a 

 medial stripe. Pectoral spots smaller, less conspicuous. Under surface of primaries more 

 mottled with grayish. Wing-formula, 3, 2-4- 1, 5. Wing, 20.50 ; tail, 9.15 ; culmen, 

 1.35; tarsus, 2.15 ; middle toe, 1.70. 



'Tf'n^^ 



12013,2 



120J3,S. 



12013,2. 



Pandion carolinensis. 



Hab. Whole of North America, south to Panama ; N. Brazil ; Trinidad, Cuba, and 

 other West India Islands. 



Localities: Behze (Sol. Ibis, I, 215); Cuba (Cab. Journ. IL Ixxx, nests; Gundl. 

 Repert. Sept. 1865, 1. 222) ; Bahamas (Bryant, Pr.Bost. Soc. VII, 1859) ; Panama (Lawr. 

 Tin, 63) ; Trinidad (Taylor, Ibis, 1866, 79) ; Arizona (Coues, Pr. A. N. S. 1866, 49) ; 

 N. Brazil (Pelz. Orn. Bras. I, 4). 



In eight out of twelve North American adult specimens, there is but the 

 slightest amount of spotting on the breast ; in two of these (4,366, Puget 

 Sound, and 12,014, Oregon), none whatever; in 17,228 ((?, Cape St. Lucas), 

 2,512 '((? S. r. B. Carlisle, Pa.), 34,065 ($, Realejo, Central America), and 

 5,837 (Fort Steilacoom), there is just a trace of these spots. 



The specimens described are those having the breast most distinctly 

 spotted. Specimens vary, in length of wing, from 17.50 to 20.50. There 

 appears to be no sexual difference in size. 



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