154 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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 SAVIGNY. 



Elanus SAVIGNY, Descr. de 1'^lgypte, 1, 1809, 69, 97. Type, by monotypy, 

 Elanus ccesius SAVIGNY = Falco melanopterus DAUDIN. 



EUnus leucurus (VIEILLOT). White-tailed Kite. [328.] 



Milvus leucurus VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XX, 1818, 563 

 (errore 556). (Paraguay.) 



RANGE. 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. 



GENUS ICTINIA VIEILLOT. 



Ictinia VIEILLOT, Analyse, 1816, 24. Type, by monotypy, Milvus 

 cenchris VIEILLOT = Falco plumbeus GMELIN. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (WILSON). Mississippi Kite. [329.] 



Falco misisippiensis WILSON, Amer. On., Ill, 1811, 80, pi. 25, fig. 1. 

 (A few miles below Natchez, Mississippi.) 



RANGE. 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, Traite" d'Orn., 1830, 55. Type, by monotypy, 

 Rostrhamus niger LESSON = Herpetotheres sociabilis VIEILLOT. 



