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*Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Ridgway, Robert, Natural History Sur- 

 vey of Illinois, Vol. 1, p. 448, 1889. 



Ictinia mississippiensis. Goss, N. S., History of the Birds of Kansas, p. 

 250, 1891. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Bendire, Chas., Life History of the 

 North American Birds, Vol. 1, p. 177, 1892. 



*Ictinia subcoerulea. Coues, E., Key to North American Birds, 4th Ed- 

 ition, p. 525, 1892. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis. Fisher, A. K., The Hawks and Owls of the 

 United States: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Orni- 

 thology and Mammalogy, Bull. 3, p. 24, 1893. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Ridgway, Robert, in C. C. Nutting's 

 Report of the Committee on State Fauna: Proceedings of the Iowa 

 Academy of Science for 1892. Vol. 1, Part 3, p. 41, 1893. 



"lotinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Ridgway, Robert, Ibid., Reprint, p. 2. 



'Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). A. O. U. Check-List, 2d Edtion, p. 

 127, 1895. 



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

 American Birds, 2d Edition, p. 225, 1895. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis. Bartsch, Paul, Birds Extinct in Iowa and Those 

 Becoming So: The Iowa Ornithologist, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 3, 1896. 



*Ictinia mississippiensis. Keyes, Charles Reuben, The lowan Raptores: The 

 Iowa Ornithologist, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 2, 1897. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Widmann, Otto, A Preliminary Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of Missouri: Acad. Sci. of St. Louis, p. 90, 1907. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Anderson, R. M., The Birds of Iowa: 

 Proc. Dav* Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. XI, p. 243, 1907. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Bruner, L., Wolcott, R. H., Swenk, 

 M. H., A Preliminary Review of the Birds of Nebraska, p. 50, 1909. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Cory, C. B., Birds of Illinois and Wis- 

 consin, p. 454, 1909. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). A. 0. U. Check-List, p. 154, 1910. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Chapman, F. M., Birds of Eastern 

 North America, p. 291, 1912. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Bunker, C. D., The Birds of Kansas, 

 p. 146, 1913. 



Ictinia mississippiensis (Wilson). Bailey, B. H., The Wilson Bulletin, 

 No. 92, September, 1915. 



Genus Circus Lacepede. 



4. CIRCUS HUDSONIUS (Linnaeus). 331. 

 Marsh Hawk. Harrier. Blue Hawk. 



Field Characters, A moderately large, slender, long-tailed hawk 

 usually seen flying low over meadows or marshes, perching on fence 



