l84 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Suborder FALCONES. Vultures, Falcons, Hawks, 

 Buzzards, Eagles, Kites, Harriers, etc. 



Family FALCONID-ffi. Vultures, Falcons, Hawks, 



Eagles, etc. 



Subfamily ACCIPITRIN-^. Kites, Buzzards, Hawks, Goshawks, 



Eagles, etc. 



Genus ELANOIDES Vieillot. 



Elanoidcs\\YA\A.. Nouv. Diet. XXIV. i8i8, loi. TyTpt^Falco/urcr- 

 tits = F. forficahis Linn. 



327. Elanoides forficatus (Linn.). 



Swallow-tailed Kite. 



Faico forficaUis Linn. S. N. ed. lo, I. 1758, 89. 



Elanoides forficatus CouES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1875, 345. 



[B 34, C 337, R 426, C 493.] 



Hab. Southern United States, especially in the interior, from Penn- 

 sylvania and Minnesota southward, throughout Central and South 

 America ; westward to the Great Plains. Casual eastward to Southern 

 New England. Accidental in England. 



Genus ELANUS Savigny. 



Elamis Savig. Descr. de I'figypte, 1809, 97. Type, E. casius-= 

 Falco melanoptcrns Daud. 



328. Elanus leucurus (Vie ill.). 



WhJte-tailed Kite. 



Miivus leucurus Y iEVLL. Nouv. Diet. XX. 181S, 563 (errore 556). 

 Elanus leucurus Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 4. 



[B SS, C 336, R 427. C 492.] 



Hab. Southern United States, from South Carolina, Southei'n Illi- 

 nois, and California, southward to Chili and Buenos Ayres. 



