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southern Indiana, and South Carolina south through eastern Mexico 
and Central America to Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay; accidental west 
to New Mexico and Colorado and north to northern Wisconsin, 
Ontario, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and in England; casual in 
the Greater Antilles; winters south of the United States. 
GENUS ELANUS Saviany. 
Elanus Savieny, Deser. de Egypte, I, 1809, 69,97. Type, by monotypy, 
Elanus cesius SavianNy = Falco melanopterus DaupIN. 
Elanus leuctrus (VIEILLOT). White-tailed Kite. [328.] 
Milvus leucurus Vietutot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XX, 1818, 563 
(errore 556). (Paraguay.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds in Lower Austral 
Zone in California (Tehama County south to Los Angeles County), 
Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Florida; casual in southern 
Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; winters in California 
and Florida and south rarely to Guatemala; resident in South America 
from Argentina and Chile to Venezuela. 
GeENwus ICTINIA VIEILLOT. 
Ictinia ViEILuoT, Analyse, 1816, 24. Type, by monotypy, Milvus 
cenchris ViE1LLoT = Falco plumbeus GMELIN. 
Ictinia mississippiénsis (WILSON). Mississippi Kite. [329.] 
Falco misisippiensis Witson, Amer. Orn., III, 1811, 80, pl. 25, fig. 1. 
(A few miles below Natchez, Mississippi.) 
RancGe.— Lower Austral Zone from southern Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, 
southern Indiana, and South Carolina south to Texas and Florida; 
winters in Florida and southern Texas and south rarely to Guatemala; 
accidental in Colorado, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. 
GENUS ROSTRHAMUS Lesson. 
Rostrhamus Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1830, 55. Type, by monotypy, 
Rostrhamus niger Lesson = Herpetotheres sociabilis V1e1LLov. 
