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Migrant from North America ; rare. 



The only record for the Dominican Republic is that of one taken 

 by Kaempfer and sent to the Tring Museum. Hartert informs us 

 that this specimen is labeled Espaillat, November, 1923, 300 meters 

 altitude. The locality probably refers to the Province of Espaillat. 

 The primaries in this bird are in molt. 



Poole and Perrygo recorded one February 11, 1929, near the old 

 fort at Fort Liberie, Haiti, but did not secure it. Lonnberg reports 

 a young bird from Navassa Island, in October, 1928, from a collec- 

 tion made by E. L. Ekman. 



The adult is dark bluish slate above, and cream-buff below barred 

 and spotted with black. The immature is fuscous on the back, more 

 or less margined with ochraceous or rufous, with the underparts 

 streaked, spotted or barred with black. There is a prominent mark 

 of black in the region of the ear. The species is easily told as the 

 largest of the falcons, being from 400 to 480 mm. in length. 



FALCO COLUMBARIUS COLUMBARIUS Linnaens 

 PIGEON HAWK, GAVILAN 



Falco columbarius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 175S, p. 00 (Caro- 

 lina). 



Falso columbarius, Cory, Birds of Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 

 123-124 (Puerto Plata, specimen) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1802, p. 00 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Tippenhaueb, Die Insel Haiti, 1802, p. 322 (listed). — 

 Christy, Ibis, 1807, p. 335 (head of Saniana, Bay). 



Falco columbarius columbarius, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1017, 

 p. 401 (Arroyo Savanna, specimen). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1028, p. 403 (? Gonave Island).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 

 68. 1020, p. 310 (Laguna de Haina, specimen). 



Winter visitant in uncertain numbers. 



Christy reports one seen in a mangrove swamp at the head of 

 Samana Bay without giving the date. Peters shot a female at Ar- 

 royo Savanna on March 9, and saw another near Monte Cristi, Feb- 

 ruary 19, 1916. Beck took specimens at La Vega November 28 and 

 December 7, 1916, and on Loma Rucillo February 27, 1917. Cory 

 collected a male at Puerto Plata on December 7, 1882, and Abbott 

 shot an adult male at Trujin in the southwestern part of the Domin- 

 ican Republic on February 10, 1922. Dr. Hartert writes us that 

 Kaempfer collected two immature specimens for the Tring Museum, 

 a female at Lopez, Prov. Espaillat March 12, 1922, and a male at 

 Moca, January 7, 1924. Ciferri secured one alive at the Laguna 

 de Haina in February, 1926. 



In Haiti the only records are those of specimens take by Abbott, 

 an immature bird, sexed questionably as a female, shot at an altitude 

 of 900 meters near Moustique in the northwest, on March 4, 1916, an 



