. Diseases and enemies of poultry . lvania. I have never met with it in this State. The onlyspecimen that has been taken here, so far as I canIcaiu, was shot in September, 1892, in Cumberland(HPiinlv. This specimen is in the museum of the Peniisylvania State College. FEKDS ON INSECTS. ]>!•. Fishers examinations of the stomachs of thisKite, show thai it subsists like the Swallow-tailedKite, principally nn grasshoppers, large beetles, katy-dids, crickets, etc. It does not visit the poultry yardand game birds or game mammals are never attackedby it. , small-sized snakes and frogs are s
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . lvania. I have never met with it in this State. The onlyspecimen that has been taken here, so far as I canIcaiu, was shot in September, 1892, in Cumberland(HPiinlv. This specimen is in the museum of the Peniisylvania State College. FEKDS ON INSECTS. ]>!•. Fishers examinations of the stomachs of thisKite, show thai it subsists like the Swallow-tailedKite, principally nn grasshoppers, large beetles, katy-dids, crickets, etc. It does not visit the poultry yardand game birds or game mammals are never attackedby it. , small-sized snakes and frogs are sometimes preyed upon by this Kite when insect food is notreadily secured. Never having liad the ojiportunity of studying tliisbird in life I take the following extracts from Bulletin: The Mussissippi Kite, like the other .American species, in-liabits the more southern parts of our It is dis-tvibiited fiom Ouatemala north through o:.ist3rn Meyico an Jthe soiitl^ern United Slates east of the Reoky M ISSISSI PI KITE 153 occurring regularly as far north as Georgia, Southern Illinois,Indian Territory and Kansas, and casually to Iow-:i and Wis-conpin. A few remain In the southern United States all win-ter, but the greater part pass on to durin? October,and return again in the latter part of April. * * «Thrte specimens which Wilson examined at Natchez, Miss.,cf:ntained the remains of beetles, and he taw them flyingabout the trees feeding on cicadas. Dr. Coues mentions oneshot at Blufflon, South Carolina, whosa stomach wascrammed with the same insects, together with a few kut> is wonderful at what a distance its keen eyes can delecta con:pt;ratively small Insect. Mr. K. V,. .\elsr,i says: Isaw them repeatedly dart with unerring aim upon some luck-less grasshopper from an elevation of at least 100 yards.—(Bull. Essex Inst., Vol. LX, 1877, p. 58.) THE NEST AND EGGS. •As regards the economic value of this Kite, much of thesame st
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