. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Swallo^v-tailod Kite White This most beautiful Kite can never be mis-taken for any other; its whole head, neck andunderparts are snowy white, while the back, wings and tail are glossy blueblack, the wings being very long and the tail long and deeply forked. The ex-treme length of the bird is 24 inches. As a rule nests of this bird are placedhigh up in the tallest trees; they are made of sticks, weeds and moss. Twoeggs, or rarely three, constit
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Swallo^v-tailod Kite White This most beautiful Kite can never be mis-taken for any other; its whole head, neck andunderparts are snowy white, while the back, wings and tail are glossy blueblack, the wings being very long and the tail long and deeply forked. The ex-treme length of the bird is 24 inches. As a rule nests of this bird are placedhigh up in the tallest trees; they are made of sticks, weeds and moss. Twoeggs, or rarely three, constitute a full set. They are white or bluish white,spotted with brown. The one figured is an unusually handsome marked speci-men in the collection of Mr. C. W. Crandall. Average size of eggs, x —Yegna Creek bottoms, Texas, April 27, 1891. Tv,o egg^. Nest of sticksand green moss, the same moss also being used for lining; in an elm tree 80feet up. 328. White-tailed Kite. Elanus leucurus. Range.—Southern United States, north to the Carolinas, Illinois and middleCalifornia. This species can be recognized hy its lightbluish gray mantle
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