_Remarks._--The Peregrine Falcon may be classed as a casual winter
visitor to Micronesia. It has been recorded by Hartlaub and Finsch at
Yap and Palau. A specimen from Yap was taken by Kubary in November,
1870. On November 2, 1945, at Guam as previously recorded (Baker,
1948:46) Irvin O. Buss saw a falcon alight on the superstructure of his
ship. He watched it catch and eat a Common Noddy (_Anous stolidus_). As
the ship approached the island, the bird flew to the rugged cliffs near
Facpi Point. Strophlet (1946:535) saw a large falcon, "presumed to be a
Duck Hawk," at Guam on November 16, 1945. Possibly these two observers
saw the same bird. In July, 1945, Flavin observed a Peregrine Falcon at
Guam. _F. p. fruitii_ Momiyama, which is known from the Volcano Islands,
may occur in Micronesia.
=Megapodius lapérouse senex= Hartlaub
Micronesian Megapode
_Megapodius senex_ Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868),
p. 820. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Megapodius senex_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 7, 118 (Pelew); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 256
(Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp.
89, 103 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5,
29, pl. 5, fig. 2, 3 (Palau); Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p.
547 (Pelew); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy,
1881, p. 407 (Palau); Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat., (6), art. 2, 1881,
pp. 63, 140, 145, 171, 175 (Pelew); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p.
30 (Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no.
6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 58 (Pelew); Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat.
Zool., 11, 1891, p. 196 (Peleu); _idem_, Nouv. Arch Mus. Hist.
Nat. Paris, (3), 8, 1896, p. 30 (Palaos); Ogilvie-Grant, Hand-book
Game-birds, 2, 1897, p. 182 (Pelew); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5,
1898, p. 62 (Pelew); Bolau, Mitteil, Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg,
1898, p. 69 (Palau); Finsch, Sammlung wissensch. Vorträge, 14
ser., 1900, p. 659 (Palau); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p.
113 (Palau); Lister, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 757
(Pelew).
_Megapodius laperousii_ Ogilvie-Grant (part), Cat. Birds British
Mus., 22, 1893, p. 460 (Pelew); Takastukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1,
1915, p. 51 (Pelew); Kuroda, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 27, 1915, p. 390
(Pelew); _idem_, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 28, 1916, p. 69 (Pelew).
_Megapodius laperousi_ Seale (part), Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop
Mus., 1, 1901, p. 39 (Pelew); Safford (part), The Plant World, 7,
1904, p. 265 (Pelew); Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 9, 1918, pp.
486, 487 (Palau).
_Megapodius laperousii_ var. _senex_ Dubois, Syn. Avium, 2, 1904,
p. 787 (Pelew).
_M[egapodius] lapeyrousei_ Reichenow (part), Die Vögel, 1, 1913,
p. 273 (Palauinseln).
_Megapodius laperousei senex_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 40 (Pelew).
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