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Title: Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas

Author: Henry S. Fitch

Release Date: August 12, 2010 [EBook #33412]

Language: English

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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Volume 12, No. 11, pp. 503-519

------------------------- October 25, 1963 -------------------------

Observations on the Mississippi Kite
in Southwestern Kansas

BY

HENRY S. FITCH

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1963

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 12, No. 11, pp. 503-519
Published October 25, 1963

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA. KANSAS
1963
[Union Logo]
29-7863

Observations on the Mississippi Kite
in Southwestern Kansas

BY

HENRY S. FITCH

The Mississippi kite (_Ictinia mississippiensis_) is one of the common
raptors of Kansas, occurring regularly and abundantly in summer in
that part of the state south of the Arka