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Various Florida Birds. 
Pelecanus erythorrhynchos Gmel. On March 27th we observed a 
single bird off Cape Sable, and found on the following day a Hock of per¬ 
haps twenty birds feeding in White Water Lake. As soon as disturbed 
they joined the Brown Pelicans ( P. fuscus) which were more common, 
although at first they had been feeding apart from them. Our guide was 
much surprised when' we told him they did not breed in Florida, for he 
assured us they occurred the year round, and although he had never found 
them actually nesting, he had always supposed they bred at Cape Sable. 
One specimen taken lacked the horn on the upper mandible, a charac¬ 
teristic of the breeding season. 
Cathartes aura (Linn.) and Catharista urubu (Vieill.). The distribution 
of these two species in Florida cannot be stated the way we find it in 
many manuals. At least it was our experience that the Turkey Buzzard 
was no more confined to the interior than the Black Vulture. Locally 
both were common at and away from the coast. For example at Kissim¬ 
mee Vultures were more common, while at Miami the opposite was true ; 
and during our whole Cape .Sable trip we did not see a single Vulture. 
Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.). A fine male was seen in the taxidermist’s 
shop of W. S. Dickinson of Miami, taken at De Funiak Spring’s, Fla., in 
the third week of January, 1896, with strychnine by Hutchinson Cam- 
thaw. This bird is now in the E. A. and O. Bangs collection (No. 2194). 
Haliaetus leucocephalus (Linn.) and Haliaetus leucocephalus wash- 
ingtoni (Aud.). To any one familiar with the Bald Eagle of the northern 
States, it is at once apparent that the Florida bird is not only different in 
size (Bangs, Auk, 1898, pp. 174-176), but also in habits. Observed breed¬ 
ing in numbers in cypress trees on the west shore of Lake Okeechobee, 
their dashing manner, and habits of feeding were to be contrasted with 
the northern eagle. 
Elanus leucurus (Vieill.). We saw in a taxidermist’s shop at Fort 
Myers a pair of these birds which had been shot by W. R. Kaune at the 
latter place in February, 1902. The male was bought, and now is in the 
Howe-Shattuck collection (No. 2129). 
Cerchneis* spayverius paulusfi subsp. novo. 
Type , from Miami, Fla. No. 2053, adult male. Howe-Shattuck col¬ 
lection. Collected March 20, 1902, by Reginald Heber Howe, Junior. 
Geographical range : Florida, at least from Enterprise southward. 
Subspecific characters : The smallest of the American Sparrow Hawk 
group. Rufous of upper parts very dark, particularly on the rectrices. 
Tail and wings short. Bill large and heavy. 
* Genus Cerchneis Boie. Used we believe correctly by Sharpe for the Kes¬ 
trels and Sparrow Hawks, 
t Little. 
