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the feet yellow. Bond found it in among the pine forests in the 

 eastern part of the Massif du Nord, where he collected an adult 

 female near Bois Laurence May 2, 1928, and on the same day re- 

 corded two nests placed twenty-five and forty feet from the ground 

 respectively. Both held downy young. Danforth says that on July 

 18, 1927 he saw three circling over low woods on Gonave Island. 

 Nothing is recorded of the habits of the species and few of the in- 

 habitants know it. At Sanchez it was reported to Wetmore under 

 the name cullala, and near La Vega it was known as the guaraguou. 



No definite type locality is assigned in the original description 

 but through the kind offices of Dr. C. E. Hellmayr we learn that both 

 male and female indicated by Cory as types were secured at Samana 

 in April, 1883. 



After comparison of a very fair series of specimens we are led to 

 believe that Mr. Ridgway, in describing Coryornis 35 as a monotypic 

 genus for Bupornis ridgwayi was deceived by inadequate material 

 since the characters alleged to separate the supposed group from 

 Bupornis Kaup do not appear to exist. We consider ridgwayi as 

 not generically separable from Bupornis magnirostris the type form 

 of Kaup's genus. 



The adult bird is dull gray above, with indistinct shaft streakings 

 of dusky, and the wing coverts washed with brownish. The chin is 

 white, the upper breast light gray streaked with dusky, and the rest 

 of the lower parts, including the tibiae, rufous brown barred 

 narrowly with white. The bird is from 360 to 390 mm. long. 



. Subfamily Circinae 



CIRCUS HUDSONIUS (Linnaeus) 

 MARSH HAWK 



Falco hudsonius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 128 (Hudson 

 Bay). 



Circus hudsonius, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 

 493 (Trou Caiman, St. Michel, Tortue Island). 



Uncommon in winter as a migrant from North America. 



Peters reports one seen on several occasions near Sosiia in the late 

 winter of 1916 but did not secure it. Abbott saw one twice, about 

 March 19, 1922, near Cabral, but did not get within gun range. In 

 Haiti in 1928 Bond saw the marsh hawk at Trou Caiman, St. Michel, 

 and on Tortue Island. It is probable that the bird comes casually 

 during the winter months as a migrant from North America. It is 



SB Auk, 1925, p. 585. 



