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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.). GyRrFrat- 
con. — One was taken near Providence by Mr. Newton Dexter 
in the winter of 1864-5, now in the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology collection, Cambridge, Mass.,* one at Point Judith, by 
Mr. J. S. Hopkins, October 11, 1883, now in the New England 
collection of the Boston Society of Natural History.” 
(132) 353b: Falco rusticolus obsoletus (Gmel.). BuLack 
GyrFraLcon.— 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,? 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.* There 
is also a bird in the Smith collection taken at Newport, October 
28, 1896. 
(133) 356. Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonap.). Duck 
Hawk.—A rare migrant. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that “a 
*F. & S., Vol. XIX, No. 4, p. 65. 
1 Notes Rarer Birds Mass. J. A. Allen, Am. Nat. Vol. III, No. ro, p. 513, 
as falco sacer; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, His. No. Am. Birds, Vol. III, p. 
115; in Coues and Stearns’s New Eng. Bird Life, Vol. II, p. 111 as /& gyrfalco 
islandicus, in Samuel’s Birds New Eng. and Ad. States, p. 576 as / sacer; 
Allen’s, Revised List Birds, Mass. Bull. Am Mus. Nat. His. Vol. 1, No. 7, 
p- 244. Revised Minot’s Land and Game Birds, p. 479. 
2 Auk, Vol. 1, No. I, p. 94; Ran. Notes, Vol. 1, No. 1, p.6; O& O., Vol. 
8, No. 12, p. gt. 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. 
‘Auk, Vol. XV, No. 1, p. 54. 
