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land south to Texas and the eastern Gulf States (except Florida); winters 
from Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, and Massachusetts south through eastern Mexico 
to Costa Rica. 
b. Falco sparverius phaléna (Lesson). Desert Sparrow Hawk. (360a.] 
Tinnunculus phalena Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 12€ ann., June 19, 
1845, 1086. (San Blas and Acapulco, Mexico.) 
Rance.— Western North America. Breeds from central British Columbia 
and southwestern Saskatchewan south to southern California, New Mexico, 
western Texas, and Durango east to Wyoming and western Nebraska; winters 
from British Columbia and Colorado south to Guatemala. 
c. Falco sparverius peninsularis Mearns. San Lucas Sparrow Hawk. [360b.] 
Falco sparverius peninsularis Mearns, Auk, IX, July, 1892, 267. (San 
José, Lower California.) 
RanGE.— Southern Lower California. 
d. Falco sparverius patilus (Howe & Kina). Little Sparrow Hawk. ([360c.] 
Cerchneis sparverius paulus Howe & Kina, Contrib. N. A. Orn., I, May 
21, 1902, 28. (Miami, Florida.) 
Rance.— Florida Peninsula. 
[Falco sparveroides Vicors. Cuban Sparrow Hawk. ([361.] 
Falco sparveroides Vicors, Zool. Journ., III, 1827, 426. (Cuba.) 
RaANGE.— Cuba; casual in Florida.] 
SuspraMity POLYBORINAS. Caracaras. 
GENUS POLYBORUS VIEILLOT. 
Polyborus Vie1tuoT, Analyse, 1816, 22. Type, by monotypy, “Caracara, 
Buff.” = Falco tharus Mouina. 
Polyborus cheriway (Jacquin). Audubon’s Caracara. [362.] 
Falco (cheriway) Jacquin, Beytr. Gesch. Vogel, 1784, 17, pl. 4. (Aruba 
Island, and coast of Venezueia.) 
Rance.— Northern Lower California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida 
south to Guiana and Ecuador; accidental in Ontario. 
