Mississippi kite, Ictinia mississippiensis (Falco mississipensis). Drawn by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in the Philadelphia Museum. (Same specimen as figured by Alexander Wilson as the Carolina kite). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827.

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