ICTINIA. 295 
America (except West Indies), north to South Carolina, southern Illinois (casual ?), 
and central California..............04 328. E. leucurus (VIEILL.). White-tailed Kite. 
Genus ICTINIA Virittor. (Page 222, pl. LXV., fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Adults: Uniform plumbeous, becoming lighter (whitish) 
on head and darker (blackish) on quills and tail; inner webs of quills partly rufous. 
Young: Lower parts whitish, striped with brown; upper parts varied with whitish 
and brown; tail crossed by several narrow whitish bands. 
a, Adult: Wings lighter than tail, the secondaries hoary whitish; inner webs of 
quills with indistinct spots of rufous, and outer webs with very indistinct 
stripe of the same; tail without white markings. Young: Head, neck, and 
lower parts white, sometimes tinged with buff (especially on thighs), longi- 
tudinally spotted or striped with brown; upper parts blackish brown, the 
feathers margined terminally with whitish, and with concealed spots of the 
same; tail blackish, crossed by several (about three exposed) narrow bands 
of dusky grayish, this changing to white on inner webs; under wing-coverts 
buffy, spotted with rusty. Length 13.00-15.50, wing 10.60-12.30, tail 6.00- 
7.00. Nest in tops of trees, usually near rivers. Eggs 2-3, 1.61 x 1.34, white 
usually sparsely and very faintly marked (adventitiously stained ?) with pale 
brownish. Hab. More southern United States, east of Rocky Mountains, 
north regularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, Kansas, etc. , casually, or irregu- 
larly, to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Iowa; south, shrongh eastern Mexico, 
to Guatemala............. 329. I. aissigsippientis (Wits.). Mississippi Kite. 
a’, Adult: Wing concolor with the tail, the secondaries black; inner webs of pri- 
maries almost wholly rufous, the outer webs with only a trace of this color; 
tail with about three narrow bands of white, across inner webs. Young: 
Above blackish, the feathers bordered terminally with white; head, neck, 
and lower parts whitish, striped with blackish. Wing 10.50-12.20, tail 5.60- 
6.80. Hab. Tropical America (except West Indies), north to southern 
Mexico, south to Paraguay. 
I. plumbea (GMEL.). Plumbeous Kite.! 
Genus ROSTRHAMUS Lesson. (Page 222, pl. LXV., fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Adult: Uniform slate-color, becoming nearly black on quills and tail, the wing- 
coverts inclining to brownish gray, the head and neck with more or less of a glau- 
cous or chalky cast, the former nearly black anteriorly ; tail-coverts and base of tai! 
white; tip of tail light grayish brown; bill black; cere and feet rich orange or 
orange-red, and iris crimson, in life. Young: Tail much as in adult. Upper parts 
1 Falco plumbeus Guu., S. N. i. 1788, 283. ao plumbea VIEILL., Nouv. Dict. 1816, 24. 
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