NO. 9 BIRDS OF ISLA COIBA, PANAMA—WETMORE 27 
It is probable that they were more common on Coiba than these 
few notes indicate, as in these heavy forests they must often be 
hidden from view to one on the ground. 
FALCO SPARVERIUS SPARVERIUS Linnaeus: Sparrow Hawk, Cernicalo 
Falco sparverius LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 90. (South 
Carolina. ) 
Occasionally during January I saw a sparrow hawk in the pastures 
above the Colonia Central, a migrant individual here for the north- 
ern winter. They flew immediately when men come in sight, and 
seemed quite wild. 
Family RALuipAE: Rails, Coots, and Gallinules 
ARAMIDES CAJANEA CAJANEA (Miiller): Gray-necked Wood Rail, 
Cocaleca 
Fulica Cajanea P. L. S. MUtier, Vollstandigen Natursystems, Supplements- 
und Register-Band, 1776, p. 119. (Cayenne.) 
The wood rail ranged in two quite different habitats on Coiba, 
being fairly common in the mangrove swamps at the mouths of the 
rivers, and found also in more open forest areas in the uplands. In 
Fic. 2.—Gray-necked Wood Rail, Cocaleca. 
