282 KITES 



276. WHITE-TAILED KITE. 

 Larger, 16 ; head, neck, tail and beneath, 

 white; above and central tail feathers, ash- 

 gray; patch on bend of wing, black. Breeds 

 Fig. 221 in southern U. S. from S. C. and 

 southern 111. to Tex. and CaL; 

 winters in S. A.; casual in Mich. 



277. EVERGLADE KITE. 



A little larger, 17 ; black 

 above, brown beneath; base of 

 tail and its coverts, white; female, 

 duller, fig. 221. Breeds in Fla., 

 Kite. 1-8. Cuba, and southward into eastern 

 S. A. Nests placed in low bushes, eggs, 1-2, 

 bluish white marked with brown. Flies low 

 over marshes with rather slow wing-beats 

 and erratic movements. Food, chiefly fresh- 

 water mollusks. 



278. MARSH HAWK. 



Larger, 23; above, ashy-blue; upper 

 tail-coverts, white; white beneath, fig. 222. 

 Female and young, brown above, reddish 



