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223, in text (Mexico; Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosf; 2 records). — Pearson, 

 Brimley, and Brimley, Birds North Carolina, 1942, 90 (North Carolina). — 

 Stevenson, Condor, xliv, 1942, 109 (central panhandle of Texas). — Allan 

 and SiME, Condor, xlv, 1943, 110, in text (Texas Panhandle); Wils. Bull., Iv, 

 1943, 32 (Texas Panhandle; common). — McIlhenny, Auk, Ix, 1943, 543 (s. 

 Louisiana). — Burleigh, Oce. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., No 

 20, 1944, 357 (Gulf Coast of Mississippi; common fall transient). — Grinnell 

 and Miller, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 27, 1944, 97 (California; vagrant, one 

 record). — Goodrich, Rept. Kansas State Board Agr., Ixiv, No. 267, 1945, 

 172 (Kansas; com.mon summer resident in south-central part). — Green, 

 Griffin, Odum, Stoddard, and Tomkins, Birds of Georgia, 1945, 34 (Georgia; 

 formerly common summer resident; now rare). — Haecker, Moser, and 

 SwENK, Nebraska Bird Review, xiii, 1945, 8 (Nebraska; casual). — Allan, 

 Condor, xlix, 1947, 88 (Texas; population and prey). 



Ictinia 7msisppiensis Nice, Bird-Banding, xii, 1941, 41, text (nesting habits). 



Iciinia plmnbea misisippiensis Sutton, Wils. Bull., Ivi, 1944, 7 (crit.). 



Ictinia ynississippinensis Wheeler, Birds Arkansas, 1925, 47, xx (Arkansas; 

 habits) . 



Falco ophiophagus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 103 (s. United 

 States). 



Ictinia ophiophaga Vieillot, Gal. Ois., 1825, 44, pi. 17. — Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 



1831, 74. 



Ictinia plumbea Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xvi, 1817, 76, part (cites Ois. 

 Am(5r. Sept., pi. 10 bis = 7. mississippiensis) . — Bonaparte, Isis, 1832, 

 1137; Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 4. — Jardine, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., i, 



1832, 368, pi. 25, fig. 1.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 14; Birds Amer., 8vo 

 ed., i, 1840, 73, pi. 17. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, 

 Land Birds, ed., 2, 1840, 93.— Cahoon, Orn. and 061., xv, 1890, 35. 



Falco plumbeus (not of Gmelin, 1788) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New 

 York, ii, jpt. 1, 1826, 30; Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 10.— Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. United States and Canada, Land Birds, 1832, 92. — Audubon, Orn. 

 Biog., ii, 1834, 108, pi. 117; v, 1839, 374.— Gloger, Journ. fur Orn., 1855, 36 

 (habits). 



Iciinia subcoerulea Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1875, 345 (ex 

 Falco subceruleus, the sharp-winged hawk of a dark or dusky blue color, 

 Bartram, Travels in Florida, etc., 1791, 290); Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1882, No. 491; Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 524.— 

 Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., Bull. 4, No. 1, 1878, 42 (lower 

 Rio Grande, Tex., migrating northward May 7). — Gibbs, U. S. Geol. and 

 Geogr. Surv. Terr., Bull. 5, 1879, 490 (IMichigan; spec, from Cass County). 



Ictinia subcaeridea Nehrling, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vi, 1882, 173 (Houston, 

 etc., Texas; habits). — Goss, Aux, iii, 1885, 19 (Neosho Falls, Kans. ; breeding 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



ICTINIA PLUMBEA (Gmelin) 



Plumbeous Kite 



Adults (sexes alike). — Entire head, chin, throat, nape, and entire 

 underparts varying from gull gray to dark gull gray, darkening to 

 slate gray on the under tail coverts; lores and circumocular region 

 black; scapulars, interscapulars, back, and rump slate to blackish 

 slate, the interscapulars sometimes with a dark plumbeous wash; up- 



