FALCONING. ICTINIA. 
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ridge. Head rather large, broad, flattened above; neck 
short ; body compact. Legs rather short ; tarsus very short, 
stout, roundish, feathered anteriorly for half its length, the 
rest covered with small roundish scales ; toes short, thick, 
scaly, with a few terminal scutella ; claws long, curved, co- 
nical, rounded beneath, acute. Plumage very soft, and ra- 
ther blended. Wings very long and pointed, the second 
quill longest. Tail of moderate breadth, long, emarginate, 
and rounded, 
16. 1. Elanus dispar, Temm. Black-shouldered Elanus. 
Plate CCCLII. Male and Female. 
Ash-grey above; head, tail, and lower parts white, with a large 
bluish-black patch on the wing above, and a smaller beneath; feet 
orange-yellow. Young with the upper parts brownish-grey, the larger 
feathers tipped with white, the patches on the wings brownish-black. 
Male, 14, 40. Female, 16f, 414. 
From Texas to North Carolina. Rare. Never far inland. Migrates 
southward. 
Black-winged Hawk, Falco melanopterus, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. ii. 
Falco melanopterus, Bonap. Syn. p. 31. Falco dispar, App. p. 435. 
Black-shouldered Hawk, Falco dispar, Aun. Amei*. Orn. v. iv. p. 397. 
GENUS VII. ICTINIA, Vieillot. ICTINIA. 
Bill very short, wide at the base, much compressed toward 
the end ; upper mandible with the dorsal line decurved in 
its whole length, the sides slightly convex, the tip narrow 
and acute, the edges with an obtuse lobe ; lower mandible 
with the angle very wide, the dorsal line ascending and con- 
vex, the tip rather broad and obliquely truncate. Nostrils 
round, lateral, with a central papilla. Head rather large, 
roundish, broad, flattened ; neck short, body compact. Legs 
rather short ; tarsus stout, covered anteriorly with scutella ; 
toes scutellate above, scabrous beneath, with pointed papil- 
lae ; claws rather long, curved, acuminate, flattened beneath. 
Plumage rather compact. Wings very long, the third quill 
longest. Tail long, emarginate. 
This genus is easily distinguished from Elanus ; the tarsi 
and toes being scutellate in this, and scaly in that ; and the 
