SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK. 
( Falco furcatus , Lin. Audubon, pi. 72. [descending with a snake in 
his talons.] Wilson, Am. Orn. vi. p. 70. pi. 51. fig. 2. [adult 
male]. Philad. Museum, No. 142.) 
Spec. Charact. — White ; back, wings, and tail black, with green- 
ish and purple reflections; tail deeply forked. 
This beautiful Kite breeds and passes the summer in 
the warmer parts of the United States, and is also proba- 
bly resident in all tropical and temperate America, mi- 
grating into the southern as well as the northern hemis- 
phere. In the former, according to Viellot, it is found 
in Peru, and as far as Buenos Ayres ; and though it is 
extremely rare to meet with this species as far as the 
latitude of 40 degrees in the Atlantic states ; yet, tempt- 
