lives lluti Ilit'^N iicvL'i- were knnuu (o distiirl* jxMiltrv 

 or game of jmy kind, 'rcsiinioiiy licmi all sides eon 

 linns (his ass'*r(ion. In post-nioi-tcni exauiinatiuns ol" 

 six stomachs of these Kites, recorded by Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher." the t(tli()\\in<; insects, lizards, etc., were 

 found : 



Locality. 



Hawkinsville, Fla., 

 Hawkinsville, Fla., 



Dixon county, Neb. June, 1865, ... 

 Dixon county. Neb.. .June, 1865, ... 

 Sarpy county. Neb..! Sept., 1873, ... 

 Woodville, Minn.,., i April 28. 1888, 



Date. 



March 31, 1885. 

 March 31, 1885. 



Lizard, gi-asslioppers, tree 

 toad, beetles. 



Lizard, 

 beetles. 

 60 locusts 

 69 locusts, 

 75 insects. 

 Beetle, wasp 



grasshoppers, 



5 other insects 

 3 other insects. 



VIEWS OF VARIOUS WRITERS. 



Audubon speaks of often seeing these hawks with 

 long slender snakes hanging from their talons, and he 

 gives the following account (quoted from Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher's Bulletin No. H) of two stomachs collected in 

 Texas: 



"In the stomach (of one bird) are six snakes, of a very slen- 

 der form and light-green color, one of them 22V2 inches in 

 length, together with one large larva, 3 inches long, and two 

 coleopterous (beetles) insects. Some of the snakes have been 

 swallowed whole, although bruised, the rest brolcen into large 

 pieces several inches long. * * * * In another 



male shot in the same country, on the same day, tlie stomach 

 contained a slender snake 19 inches long, six lizai-ds. and four 

 beautiful. \ery large coleopterous insects, with two eggs of 

 reptiles m inches long."- — (Ornith, Biographv, \-ol. \-., pp. 

 372-,^74.) 



This s]»eci('s laiely alights on the ground; ]\[r. H. 

 W. Heushaw states that he found these Kites common 

 on the Ariaini i-ivei', Florida, and frequently saw them 



'The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Rel.ition to 

 Agricultuie; Bulletin No. 3, Division of Ornithology and Mam- 

 molcgy. United States Department of .\griculture, 1893. 



