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NISUS FUSCUS. 
lalco fuscus Gmelin, S. N. i. 1788, 283.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1790, 43; Gen. Hist, i, 
1821, 283.— Mill. Cim. Fhys. 1796, pi. xviii.— Daud. Tr. Orn. ii, 1800, 86.— 
Siiaw, Zoology, vii, 1809, 161.— Audubon, B. Am. 1821, pi. 374; Orn Biog. 
iv, 1838, 522.— Nuttall, Man. 1833, 87.— Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 
Philad. viii, 1839. p. —.— Peabody, Boston Journ. N. H. iii, 1841, 78 (Mass.). 
— Read, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 1853, p. — (N. Oliip).— Brewer (ed. Wilson), 
Am. Orn. 1852, 685.— Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 61. 
Accipiter fuscus Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 5; Cousp. Avium, i, 1850, 33.— Gray, 
Genera of Birds, fol. 1844, sp. 4; List Acc. Brit. Mus. 1844, 38; Hand List, 
i, 1869, 32.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1848, p.—(Jalapa; resident) ; 
ib. 1855, 279; Illustr. Birds Cal. Tex. etc. 1856, 95; Birds N. Am. 1856, 
18.— Baird, Stansbury’s Report, 1852, 314 (Salt Lake Valley); Catalogue 
Birds N. Am. 1859, No. 15.— Woodhouse, Sitgreave’s Exp. 1853, 61.— Heer- 
mann, Pacific R. R. Rep. x, iv, 1853, 33.— Newberry, ib. vi, 74.— Hoy, 
Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1853, p. — (Wisconsin); Smithsonian Rep. 1864, 
437 (Missouri).— Strickl. Orn. Syn. i, 1855, 108.— Brewer, N. Am. Oology, 
i, 1857, 18, pi. iii, tigs. 23, 29, pi. v, tig. 54.— Ivneeland, Pr. Boston Soc. 
N. H. 1857,233 (Keweenaw Pt., L. Superior).— Sclater, Ibis, 1857, 125 : P. 
Z. S. 1858, 294 (Oaxaca) ; 1864, 178 (city of Mex.).— Xantus, Pr. Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila. 1859, 190 (S. California).— Barnard, Smithsonian Rep. 1860, 
434 (Pennsylvania).— Cooper & Suckley, Pacitic R. R. Rep. xii, ii, 1860, 
146 (Washington Ter.).— Bryant, Pr. Boston Soc. N. II. 1861, 104 (Bahamas). 
— Blaki.ston, Ibis, 1861, 317 (Saskatchewan). — Boardman, Pr. Boston 
Soc. N. H., 1862, 122 (Calais, Me.). — Verrill, ib. 137 (Anticosti I.); Pr. 
Essex Inst, iii, 1863, p — .— Samuels, Rep. Sec. Ag. Mass. 1864, p. — ; Birds 
of New Eng. 1870, 31, 81.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. — (Texas).— Coues, Pr. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1866, p. — (Arizona) ; ib. 1871, 27 (Ft. Macon, N. C.) ; Pr. 
Essex lust. 1868, p — ; Pr. Boston Soc. 1868, 120 (South Carolina) ; Key to N. 
Am. Birds, 1872, 212; Check List of N. Am. B. 1873, 67; Birds Northwest 
1874, 333.— Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., 1866, p. — ; ib. 1868, 134 (Costa Rica);— 
Mem. Boston Soc. N. H. 1874, p. 298 (W. Mexico; biographical notes by A. J. 
Grayson).— Cooper, Am. Nat. 1868, p.— (Montana); Orn. California, 1870, 
466.— Turnbull, Birds E. Penn. 1869, p. —.— Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. — 
(Veragua).— Maynard, Naturalist’s Guide, 1870, 163 (Mass); Proc. Boston 
Soc. N. H., 1871, 26 (Coos Co., N. H.)— Dall & Bann. Tr. Chicago Ac. Sc. i, 
1870,271 (Alaska).— Ridgway, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 1870, 141; Am. Nat. 
1871, p. — (S. III.).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. ii, 1871, 319 (Florida).— 
Parker, Am. Nat. 1871, p. 169 (Iowa).—Ross, Birds of Canada, 1871,4.— Snow, 
Birds of Kansas, 1872,2.— Trippe, Pr. Boston Soc. N. II. 1872, p.— (S. Iowa).— 
Hatch, Bull. Minn. Ac. Sc. 1874,51 (Minnesota; summer).— Adams, Rambles, 
1873, 297.— Scl. & Salvin, Nom. Neotr. 1873,120. — Sharpe, Cat. Acc. Brit. Mus. 
1874,135.— Hensiiaw, Anu. Lyc. N. Y. xi, 1874, 10 (Utah). 
Astur fuscus De Kay, Zool. N. Y. ii, 1844,17, pi. ii, fig. 2 ( $ juv.).— Giraud, Birds 
Long I. 1844, 19.— Gambel, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1846, p. — (California).— 
Pratten, Tr. Ill. Ag. Soc. 1853-4, 599 (S. HI.).— Ivennicott, ib. 581 (N. III.).— 
Putnam, Pr. Essex Inst. 1856, 204 (Mass.; resident).— Willis, Smithsonian 
Rep. 1858, p. 281 (Nova Scotia).— Bland, ib. p. 289 (Bermuda). 
Nisus fuscus Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, 64, 281 — Sciilegel, Mus. P.-B. As- 
tures, 1862, 30; Revue Acc. 1873, 69.— Ridgway, Ball. Essex Inst, v, 1873, 
165 (Colorado); ib. 1875,22 (Nevada); Proc. Boston Soc. N. 11. 1874, p.—; 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 1874,181 (Illinois); B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. iii, 1874,224.— 
Yarrow & Hensiiaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler’s Exp. 1874, 49, 68 (Colorado 
and Utah). 
