Transcriber's Notes
Typographical Corrections:With the exception of the five typographical corrections listed below,the text of this file is that which is contained in the originalprinted volume:
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| Page 505: | missing period | op cit. => op. cit. |
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University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
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
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
29-7863
Observations on the Mississippi Kite
in Southwestern Kansas
BY
HENRY S. FITCH
The Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) is one of the commonraptors of Kansas, occurring regularly and abundantly in summerin that part of the state south of the Arkansas River. In 1961, in anattempt to find out more about the ecology of the species in Kansas,I made several trips to parts of the state where kites could be foundin numbers, notably to Meade County State Park in the southwesternpart of the state, 7½ miles south and five miles west ofMeade. Little has been written regarding the species in this extremenorthwestern part of its breeding range, where it thrivesunder ecological conditions much different from those that prevailelsewhere in its range. Also, the social behavior and food habitshave been given relatively little attention.
In my field study I was helped by my son, John H. Fitch, whoclim