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southern Indiana, and South Carolina south through eastern Mexico 

 and Central America to Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay; accidental west 

 to New Mexico and Colorado and north to northern Wisconsin, 

 Ontario, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and in England; casual in 

 the Greater Antilles; winters south of the United States. 



Genus ELANXTS Savigny. 



Elanus Savigny, Descr. de I'figypte, 1, 1809, 69, 97. Type, by monotypy, 

 Elanus ccesius Savigny = Falco melanopterus Dattdin. 



Elanus leucurus (Vieillot). White-tailed Kite. [328.] 



Milvus hitcurus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XX, 1818, 563 

 (errore 556). (Paraguay.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds in Lower Austral 

 Zone in California (Tehama County south to Los Angeles County), 

 Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Florida; casual in southern 

 Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; winters in California 

 and Florida and south rarely to Guatemala; resident in South America 

 from Argentina and Chile to Venezuela. 



Genus ICTINIA Vieillot. 



Ictinia Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 24. Type, by monotypy, Milvus 

 cenchris Vieillot = Falco plumbeus Gmelin. 



Ictinia mississippilnsis (Wilson). Mississippi Kite. [329.] 



Falco misisippiensis Wilson, Amer. Om., Ill, 1811, 80, pi. 25, fig. 1. 

 (A few miles below Natchez, Mississippi.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone from southern Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, 

 southern Indiana, and South Carolina south to Texas and Florida; 

 winters in Florida and southern Texas and south rarely to Guatemala ; 

 accidental iji Colorado, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. 



Genus ROSTRHAMUS Lesson. 



Bostrhamus Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1830, 55. Type, by monotypy, 

 Rostrhamus niger Lesson = Herpetotheres sociabilis Vieillot. 



