200 



NESTS AND E008 OF 



measurements of two eggs taker May 22, 1886, is 1.65x1.40, 1.63x1.34; they are bluish- 

 white, unmarked, one of them having light brown stains on it. They were taken 

 from a nest placed in the slender forks of a small post oak about thirty feet from the 

 ground; it was made of sticks and weed stems, lined with willow twigs in leaf. Mr. 

 Singley has given me the sizes of the eggs of four sets which he collected in the 



328. 



Lefi, Mississipi'i Kite, right, Swallow-tailed Kite (From Brehm). 



season of 1887. Three of these sets were of two eggs each and one of three; their 

 colpr was invariably bluish-white, unmarked, and their sizes are as follows:' 1.53x 

 1.34, 1.64x1.36, 1.71x1.32, 1.63x1.34, 1.60x1.35, 1.67x1.32, 1.65x1.34, 1.59x1.35, 1.62x1.33. 

 Considerable variation will be noticed In the length of these specimens, while their 

 diameter is very uniform. Col. N. S. Goss found this species breeding in company 

 with the Swallow-tailed Kite In the vicinity of Neosho Falls, Kansas. An egg was 

 taken July 5, from an old crow's nest, fitted up with a few extra sticks and green 

 twigs in leat for lining. It was placed in a medium-sized oak about forty feet from 

 the ground. The egg, which was advanced in Incubation, he describes a pure white, 

 size 1.70x1.35.* Col. Goss also observed the Mississippi Kite nesting in the timber 

 lands bordering Medicine River, near Sun City, Barber county, Kansas, and found 



* Auk, Vol. IT, p. 21. 



