ANNOTATED LIST. 59 



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 ig, 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) 3S4a. Falco rusticolus gyrfalco (Linn.). Gyrfal- 

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

 in the winter of 1864-5, ^'^^ '^^ ^^^ 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) 353^- Falco rusticolus obsoletus (Gmel.). Black 

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

 November 22, 189 1, 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 anaturn (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 Fa/co 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. iii 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. 



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

 p. 480. 



*Auk, Vol. XV, No. I, p. 54. 



