112 ELANUS C^RULEUS. MILVUS ICTINUS. 



§ 284. One. — " Sardinia." From M. Parzudaki's Collection, 

 1S56. 



§ 285. 0^^^.— "Tamak, Crimea, May 1857." From M. Par- 

 zudaki's Collection, 1858. 



§ 286. One. — Ain Oosera, Eastern Atlas, June 1856. From 

 Mr. Tristram's Collection, 1858. 



[§ 287. Two.—" Sarepta." From Herr F. Moschler's Collec- 

 lection, 1862.] 



ELANUS CffiRULEUS (Desfontaines). 



BLACK-WINGED KITE. 



§ 288. 0/?e. — Tangiers(?). From M. Favier's Collection, 

 through Mr. Williams, 1847. 



MILVUS ICTINUS, Savigny. 

 KITE. 



§ 289. Two. — Monk's Wood, Huntingdonshire. From Mr. 

 Sadd, 1843. 



Obtained in 1843 from Mr. Sadd, of Cambridge^ who had them 

 from Monk's Wood. The birds were once very plentifril in that 

 neighbourhood ; and Mr. Chapman, of Coney Street, York, informed 

 me that he had had " hundreds '^ of their eggs when the coaches ran 

 that road. I only saw one of these magnificent birds on the wing in 

 Monk's Wood during the three or four days I spent at Sawtry, in 

 June 1843. 



§ 290. One. — Huntingdonshire. From Mr. Harvey, of Bait's- 

 bight, 1844. 



Kites are becoming very rare near Alconbury Hill. I am not sure 



