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PANDION HALIAETUS RIDGWAYI Maynard 

 BAHAMAN OSPREY 



Pandion Ridgwcir"' Maynard, Airier. Exch. and Mart, vol. 3, no. 3, January 

 15, 1887, p. 33 (Andros Island," 5 Bahama Island). 



Apparently a straggler. 



Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Curator of Mammals, United States Na- 

 tional Museum has furnished the following interesting statement: 



"On the morning of February 17, 1928, while running southeast- 

 ward along the coast of the Dominican Republic toward Cape En- 

 gano, the steamship Huron of the Clyde Santo Domingo Line was 

 visited by a fish-hawk which I had no hesitation in identifying as 

 Pandion ridgwayi Maynard. The bird perched on the steamer's low 

 mast-head for several hours and evinced much interest in the pas- 

 sengers moving about on the deck beneath, constantly turning its 

 head from side to side and downward to keep them in view. The 

 head markings could thus be perfectly studied, even without the aid 

 of a glass. With a glass the individual feathers could almost be 

 counted. The markings were exactly those of the Bahaman fish- 

 hawk, the type specimen of which, now in the British Museum, was 

 for many years in my possession." 



This form described originally from the Bahama Islands and 

 found recently on the coast of Yucatan 30 is similar in size to the 

 American osprey, differing from that bird in having the sides of 

 the head white without the dark line that passes through the eye 

 in the other form, and the top of the head and neck also white 

 except for an occasional dark marking. Careful watch should bp 

 maintained as it may prove to be of regular occurrence. 



Family FALCONIDAE 

 Subfamily Falconinae 



FALCO PEREGRINUS ANATUM Bonaparte 

 DUCK HAWK 



Falco anaium Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, p. 4 (Egg Harbor. 

 New Jersey). 



F. p. anatiim, Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora. 1929, p. 98 (Navassa, recorded). 



Falco peregrimis anatum, Ekman, Ark. for Bot., vol. 22A, No. 16, 1929, p. 7 

 ( Navassa ) . 



37 Given as Pandion ridgwayi in corrected description in vol. 3, no. 6, February 5, 1887, 

 p. 69. 



38 Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 4, May 20, 1922, p. 232, gives the type locality as " Bitter 

 guana Key," but in the original description it is listed as from Andros. 



39 Griscom, Auier. Mus. Nov. No. 235, Nov. 18, 1926, p. 13 ; recorded from Hick's Key, 

 Ascension Bay, Boca de Paila, breeding. 



