. Diseases and enemies of poultry . ennsylvania. I have never met with it in this State. The onlyspecimen that has been taken here, so far as I canlearn, was shot in September, 1892, in Cumberhind(;ounty. This specimen is in the museum of the Peniisvivania State College. FEEDS ON INSECTS. Dr. Fishers examinations of the stomachs of thisKite, show that it subsists like the Swallow-tailedKite, principally on grasshoppers, large beetles, katy-dids, crickets, etc. It does not visit the poultry yardand game birds or game mammals are never attackedby it. Lizards, small-sized snakes and frogs are som
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . ennsylvania. I have never met with it in this State. The onlyspecimen that has been taken here, so far as I canlearn, was shot in September, 1892, in Cumberhind(;ounty. This specimen is in the museum of the Peniisvivania State College. FEEDS ON INSECTS. Dr. Fishers examinations of the stomachs of thisKite, show that it subsists like the Swallow-tailedKite, principally on grasshoppers, large beetles, katy-dids, crickets, etc. It does not visit the poultry yardand game birds or game mammals are never attackedby it. Lizards, small-sized snakes and frogs are some-times preyed upon by this Kite when insect food is notreadily secured. Never having had the opportunity of studying thisbird in life I take the following extracts from Bulletin: The Mif-sissippi Kite, like the other American species, in-habits the more southern parts of our terrirory. It is dis-tributed f!(ini Guatemala north through eastarn .\Tpxico anjthe soutl-ern Tnit(>d States (>ast of th-^ Rficky Mountains,. M ISSISSI PI KITE 153 occurring regularly as far north as Georgia, Southern UUnols,Indian Territory and Kansas, and casually to Iowa and Wis-confiin. A few remain In the southern United States all win-ter, but the greater part pass on to Mexico during October,and return again in the latter part of April. * • *Thrc^ specimens which Wilson examined at Natchez, Mi?B.,ccntained the remains of beetles, and he taw them flyingabout the trees feeding on cicadas. Dr. Coues mentions onesliot at Blufflon, South Carolina, whose stomach wascrammed with the same insects, together wth a few is wonderful at what a distance its iceen eyes can delecta conjparatively small insect. Mr. E. \V. Nelson feays: *Ipaw them repeatedly dart with unerring aim upim 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 statement m
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