. Birds of North Carolina . are two or three in num-ber. Size about x The range of the Mississippi Kite is chiefly west of the Mississippi River. 164 BiKDS OF XoRTH CaROLIXA Genus Circus (Lacep.) This genus contains several foreign species, but is represented in North Americaby only one—the Marsh Hawk. The genus differs from other hawks in having thefeathers of the face forming a slight ruff, somewhat as in the owls. / 146. Circus hudsonius {Linn.). Marsh Hawk; Rabbit Hawk. Description.—Adult mule, pale bluish gray, tlio rump and underparts whitish; fonmlc andimmature male dusky bro
. Birds of North Carolina . are two or three in num-ber. Size about x The range of the Mississippi Kite is chiefly west of the Mississippi River. 164 BiKDS OF XoRTH CaROLIXA Genus Circus (Lacep.) This genus contains several foreign species, but is represented in North Americaby only one—the Marsh Hawk. The genus differs from other hawks in having thefeathers of the face forming a slight ruff, somewhat as in the owls. / 146. Circus hudsonius {Linn.). Marsh Hawk; Rabbit Hawk. Description.—Adult mule, pale bluish gray, tlio rump and underparts whitish; fonmlc andimmature male dusky brown above, the underparts whitLsh, streaked witli brown, rump , to ; \V., to l.).(K); T., to Range.—Wliole of North America, south in winter to Panama and \\est Indies. Range in North Carolina.—\\hole State eiist of the mountains in winter; otherwise recorded byCairns lus an uncommon fall transient in Buncombe County, and by Cones as a common residentnear Beaufort, on the
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