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THE RAPTORIAL BIRDS OF IOWA 



to three, dull whitish or bluish white, measuring about 1.63 by 1.32 

 inches. 



Authors generally state that the food of this species is similar to 

 that of the Swallow-tailed Kite, with which it is said to be seen not 

 infrequently. 



Fig-. 19. Map showing the distribution in Iowa of the Mississippi Kite. 



Ictinia Vieillot, Analyse, 24, 1816. Type, by monotypy, Milvus cenchria 

 Vieillot=Falco plumbeus Gmelin. 



Falco mississippienis Wilson, Amer. Orn., Ill, 80, pi. 25, fig. 1, 1811. (A 

 few miles below Natchez, Mississippi.) 

 Ictinia mississippiensis (Wils.) 



*Falco mississippiensis Wilson. Say, Thomas, in Major S. H. Long's Ac- 

 jcount of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mts., 1819-20, 

 p. 370. (Engineers Cantonment, Pottawattamie county.) 



*Ictinia mississippiensis Gray. Allen, J. A., Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Iowa: Geology of Iowa, White, Vol. 2, App. B, p. 424, 1870. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, His- 

 tory of the Birds of North America, Land Birds, Vol. 3, p. 204, 1874. 



*Ictinia subcoerulea. Coues, E., Key to North American Birds, 2d Edition, 

 p. 525, 1884. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). A. O. U. Check-List, p. 185, 1886. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Ridgway, Robert, A Manual to North 

 American Birds, p. 225, 1887. 



*Ictinia subcoerulea. Coues, E., Key to North American Birds, 3d Edi- 

 tion, p.. 525, 1887. 



