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RUPORNIS RIDGWAYI Cory 

 RIDGWAY'S HAWK, CULLALA, GTTARAGUOTJ, MALFINI SAVANNE 



Rupornis ridgwayi Cory, Quart. Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, vol. 2, Oct., 1883, 

 p. 46 (Samamt, Dominican Republic). — Cory, Auk, 1884, p. 4 (reprint orig. 

 description, with further notes) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 

 121-122, 2 col. pis. (Samana., Almercen, Magua, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian 

 Birds, 1892, p. 99 (Haiti, Dominican Republic).— Tristram, H. B., Cat. Coll. 

 Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, pp. 61, 271 (SamanH, specimen). — Tippen- 

 hauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 319, 322 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 335 

 (? Yuna). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 357 (Miranda, 

 specimen). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 401 (Laguna 

 Flaca, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, 

 p. 493 (Massif du Nord). 



Coryornis ridgivayi, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 362 ( Santo Domingo City, Haina, 

 Gonave Island). 



Resident, rather rare. 



In the Dominican Republic Dr. W. L. Abbott secured an adult male 

 at Guarabo near Jovero on November 18, 1923, noting that the feet 

 were yellow, and the iris brownish yellow, and that the stomach con- 

 tained lizards. He also secured an immature bird (with sex not 

 marked) near Sanchez, February 7, 1919. The stomach of the second 

 specimen contained remains of a rat. There are also skins in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences taken by Abbott labeled Samana Ba}' 

 June 30 and La Caiiita (now Sanchez), D. R., July 14 and 15, 1883. 

 Cory records specimens from Magua January 31, Samana April 3 

 and September 4, and Almercen, August 27, 1883, and there is a skin 

 in the United States National Museum received from Cory taken at 

 Almercen, now known as Rivas, on August 24, 1883. Tristram 

 possessed one specimen taken by T. A. Toogood at Samana in 1886. 

 Verrill reports one taken at Miranda and says that he observed it in 

 other localities. Peters shot two males at the Laguna Flaca on the 

 north coast on March 8, 1916. These records all pertain to the north- 

 eastern part of the Dominican Republic. Danforth, however, in 

 1927 recorded the bird east of Santo Domingo City July 4 and 8 and 

 near Haina June 16. 



In Haiti Abbott found Ridgway's hawk common and tame in the 

 scrub on the Cayemite Islands in January, 1918, and collected a fine 

 series. Twelve were taken on Grande Cayemite between January 

 6 and 10, and one on Petite Cayemite January 13. Two were seen 

 in the latter locality. The stomach of one contained remains of a 

 ground dove, and of another a mouse. Abbott records the iris as 

 brown, brownish yellow, or pale brownish yellow, bill leaden color 

 with the tip black, the cere yellowish green, the tarsi greenish, and 



