88 Tratis. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



north to North Carolina, and in the Mississippi Valley to the 

 mouth of the Ohio; casually to the northern states and Canada; 

 south through the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and 

 in South America to lat. 41°. 



In Missouri a regular, though not numerous, summer resident 

 in the alluvial counties of the southeast, where it is said to make 

 its nests on cypress stumps in the overflow in similar situations 

 as the Canada Goose. Also seen by the writer along the White 

 River in southwestern Missouri in Stone Co. in June 1905, and 

 in Taney Co., May 1900, in company with Turkey ^\lltures. 

 Mr. H. Nehrling reported it as having occurred twice in Law- 

 rence Co. Mr. E. S. Woodruff identified one April 29, 1907, in 

 Shannon Co. 



Suborder Falcones. Falcons, Hawks, Buzzards, Eagles, Kites, etc. 



Family Falconidae. Falcons, Hawks, Eagles. 



Subfamily Accipitrinae. Kites, Buzzards, Hawks, Eagles. 



*327. Elanoidp:s forficatus (Linn.). Swallow-tailed Kite. 



Fcdco forficatu.'s. Falco furcatus. Nauclerus forficatus. Nauclerus furcatus. 

 Milvus furcatus. Elanus furcatus. Fork-tailed Kite. Swallow-tailed 

 Hawk. 



Geog. Dist. — ^^'hole of South and Central America, antl in 

 North America tlii-ough the interior north to Minnesota 47° 

 and North Dakota 49° lat. ; on the Atlantic coast to the Caro- 

 linas, rarely to New England; west casually to Colorado. 

 Breeds regularly from Ohio River southward; irregularly north 

 to Iowa, northern Nebraska, southern Wisconsin, and wanders 

 after the breeding season in flocks of various size indifferently 

 over the country, chiefly west of the Mississippi River. Winters 

 south of United States. 



In the cotton field region of southeastern Missouri the Swallow- 

 tailed Kite is a regular, though not numerous, summer resident, 

 nesting in the adjoining cypress swamps. In the rest of the 

 state it is of very irregular occurrence, though apparently 

 paying occasional visits to all parts of it. It has been found 

 nesting in Clark Co. in the northeast corner of Missouri by Mr. 

 E. S. Currier of Keokuk, and Mr. John S. Marley took an egg 

 from a nest near Kansas City. Trippe found it breeding in 

 1872 just across the state line in Iowa. Nearly all observers in 



