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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 phalsena (LESSON). Desert Sparrow Hawk. [360a.] 



Tinnunculus phalcena LESSON, JiJcho du Monde Savant, 12 e ann., June 19, 

 1845, 1086. (San Bias and Acapulco, Mexico.) 



RANGE. 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 ME ARNS. San Lucas Sparrow Hawk. [3606.] 



Falco sparverius peninsularis MEAKNS, Auk, IX, July, 1892, 267. (San 

 Jose", Lower California.) 



RANGE. Southern Lower California. 



d. Falco sparverius paulus (Ho WE & KING). Little Sparrow Hawk. [360c.] 



Cerchneis sparverius paulus HOWE & KING, Contrib. N. A. Orn., I, May 

 21, 1902, 28. (Miami, Florida.) 



RANGE. Florida Peninsula. 



[Falco sparveroides VIGORS. Cuban Sparrow Hawk. [361.] 

 Falco sparveroides VIGORS, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 426. (Cuba.) 



RANGE. Cuba; casual in Florida.] 



SUBFAMILY POLYBORIN^E. CARACARAS. 



GENUS POLYBORUS VIEILLOT. 



Polyborus VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 22. Type, by monotypy, "Caracara, 

 Buff." = Falco tharus MOLINA. 



Polyborus cheriway (JACQUIN). Audubon's Caracara. [362.] 



Falco (cheriway) JACQUIN, Beytr. Gesch. Vogel, 1784, 17, pi. 4. (Aruba 

 Island, and coast of Venezuela.) 



RANGE. Northern Lower California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida 

 south to Guiana and Ecuador; accidental in Ontario. 



