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trees, so that cultivated areas where there is older rastrojo are favor- 

 able to it. In sections of dense forest it may be encountered along 

 the borders but it does not appear to penetrate into the interior 

 though it may sweep high overhead in its soaring evolutions. Open 



Fig, 36.— Plumbeous kite, gavilan plomizo, Ictinia plumbea. 



pastures with scattered trees are favored localities, and it is in such 

 areas that I have found them on the eastern side of the Azuero Pen- 

 insula, as far down as the Rio Caldera, back of Punta Mala. I have 

 seen them at 900 meters elevation above El Valle, and Griscom re- 

 cords a breeding bird from Cana (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 69, 



