6 THE A‘ UD ULBOGWN 8B sO ea ese 
Rough-legged Hawk, from a drawing by Walter A. Weber, reprinted through the 
courtesy of Outdoor America. 
tiful colored plate by Brooks. The analyses of stomach contents given 
below are taken from this book. 
The kites, four in number, are found in the South: swallow- 
tailed, white-tailed, Mississippi and Everglade kites. The first three 
feed on insects almost exclusively, but take a few frogs, lizards and 
snakes. The last feeds on a kind of snail plentiful in the Everglades 
of Florida. Hence kites are eliminated as predators. 
The marsh hawk’s affinities seem to be with the kites and so 
it is inserted here. It harries or hunts over prairies and marshes. 
It is a large hawk, with long, square tail and white rump, i.e., the 
area between the lower back and the tail. The males are bluish, the 
females brown and larger. They eat some birds. Here is a record: 
