168 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Polyborus lutosus RIDGWAY. Guadalupe Caracara. [363.] 



Polyborus lutosus RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., I, No. 6, 

 2d ser., Feb. 8, 1876, 459. (Guadalupe Island, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Guadalupe Island, Lower California. (Now extinct ?) 



FAMILY PANDIONIDJE. OSPREYS. 



GENUS PANDION SAVIGNY. 



Pandion SAVIGNY, Descr. de I'^gypte, I, 1809, 69, 95. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Falco haliaetus LINN^US. 



Pandion haliaetus 



RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. 



a. [Pandion haliaetus haliaetus. Extralimital.]^ 



b. Pandion haliaetus caroline*nsis (GMELIN.) Osprey. [364.] 



Falco carolinensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 263. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from northwestern Alaska, 

 northwestern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, southern Ungava, and Newfound- 

 land south to Lower California, western Mexico, and the Gulf coast; winters 

 from the southern United States through Lower California and Mexico to the 

 West Indies and Central America ; occurs also in South America south to Peru 

 and Paraguay. 



SUBORDER STRIGES. OWLS. 



FAMILY ALUCONIDJE. BARN OWLS. 



GENUS ALUCO FLEMING. 



Aluco FLEMING, Philos. Zool., II, 1822, 236. Type, by monotypy, 

 Strix flammea LINN^US (1766, nee PONTOPPIDAN, 1763) = Strix 

 alba SCOPOLI. 



Aluco pratincola (BONAPARTE). Barn Owl. [365.] 



Strix pratincola BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 7. (Southeastern 

 United States.) 



