BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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Subfamily, FALCONING. 



Genus : FALCO. Linn. 

 FALCO : L/XXsEUS, SYST. NAT., I. /. 124, 1766. 



FALCO COLUMBARIUS. Linn. 



Falco columbarius. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 128 (1766). — Gm., Syst. 



Nat., p. 281 (1789). — Daucl., Tr. Orn., II. p. 83 (1800).— 



Shaw, Zobl., VII. p. 188 (1S1 2). — Wils., Am. Orn., pi. xv. 



f. 3 (1808). — Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 17 (1847). — Sagra, Hist. 



Nat. Cuba Ois., p. 23. — Cory, Nat. Magdalene I., p. 56 (1878). 



— Coues, Key N. Am. Bds., p. 536 (1884). 

 Tinnunculus columbarius. Vieill., Ois. Am., Sept., I. pi. xi. (1807). 

 Hypotriorchis columbarius. Gray, List Bds. Brit. Mus., p. 55 



(1844). — Gen. B., fol. sp. 11 (1844). — Cass., Bds. Cal. and 



Tex., p. 90 (1854). — Gundl., Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat, Tomo 



VII. p. 162 (1878). 

 Lithofalco columbarius. Bp.,. Consp. A v., p. 26 (1850). 

 ALsalon cohimbarius. Kaup., Mon. Falc. Cont. Orn., p. 54 (1850). 



Sp, Char., Male. — Above, umber brown ; feathers of the head 

 with distinctly showing black shafts ; tail, brown, banded and tipped 

 with dull white; unclerparts, dull white, longitudinally streaked with 

 brown, the blotching heaviest on the breast ; throat, generally 

 immaculate; flanks, barred and spotted; a slight superciliary streak; 

 iris, brown ; feet and legs, yellow ; bill, bluish black ; cere and base 

 of the bill, yellowish green. Very old males have the upper parts 



