ANNOTATED LIST. 



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J. M. Southwick states that "during the past season (1887) 

 a pair were located somewhere about the Seekonk River in East 

 Providence." There are, however, no definite breeding records. 

 It has been taken at Pawtucket, October 19, 1880, at Charles- 

 town, December 8, 1894, at Block Island, July 25, 1897 at 

 Charlestown Beach, November, 1886, at Warwick, 1862, and at 

 Newport. There are numerous other records.* 



(131) 354a. Falco rusticolus gyrfalco (Linn.). GYRFAL- 

 CON. One was taken near Providence by Mr. Newton Dexter 

 in the winter of 1864-5, now i n the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology collection, Cambridge, Mass., l one at Point Judith, by 

 Mr. J. S. Hopkins, October n, 1883, now in the New England 

 collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2 



(132) 353b. Falco rusticolus obsoletus (Gmel.) . BLACK 

 GYRFALCON. A female was taken by Mr. A. O'D. Taylor on 

 November 22, 1891, on Conanicut Island, now in the Newport 

 Natural History Society collection, 8 and another female was taken 

 by Mr. Arthur Scudder at Tiverton on December 26, 1896, now 

 in the collection of Mr. A. C. Bent's of Taunton, Mass. 4 There 

 is also a bird in the Smith collection taken at Newport, October 

 28, 1896. 



(^S) 35 6 - Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonap.). DUCK 

 HAWK. A rare migrant. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that " a 



*F. & S., Vol. XIX, No. 4, p. 65. 



'Notes Rarer Birds Mass. J. A. Allen, Am. Nat. Vol. Ill, No. 10, p. 513, 

 as Falco sacer\ Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, His. No. Am. Birds, Vol. Ill, p. 

 115 ; in Coues and Stearns's New Eng. Bird Life, Vol. II, p. in as F. gyrfalco 

 islandicus, in Samuel's Birds New Eng. and Ad. States, p. 576 as F. sacer; 

 Allen's, Revised List Birds, Mass. Bull. Am Mus. Nat. His. Vol. I, No. 7, 

 p. 244. Revised Minot's Land and Game Birds, p. 479. 



2 Auk, Vol. i, No. I, p. 94; Ran. Notes, Vol. i, No. i, p. 6; O & O., Vol. 

 8, No. 12, p. 91. Allen's, Revised List Birds Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His. 

 Vol. I, No. 7, p. 244. Revised Minot's Land and Game Birds, p. 479. 



3 Auk, Vol. IX, No. 3, p. 300, 301, Revised Minot's Land and Game Birds, 

 p. 480. 



4 Auk, Vol. XV, No. i, p. 54. 



