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MILVUS REGALIS. THE RED KITE. 



COMMON KITE. GLED, GLEAD, GLADE. RED GLED, SALMON-TAILED GLED, 

 FORK-TAILED GLED. PUTTOCK. CROTCHET-TAILED PUTTOCK. AN 



CLAMHAN GODHLACH. 



Falco Milvus. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 126. 



Falco Milvus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 20. Old, 



Falco austriacus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 21, Young. 



Kite. Mont. Orn. Diet, 



Milan Royal. Falco Milvus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I, 59, 



Kite or Glead. Milvus vulgaris. Selb. lUustr. I. 74. 



Common Kite. Milvus Ictinus. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 86. 



Male u'ith the upper parts reddish-hroicn, marTced icith longi- 

 tudinal hlackish-brown streaks, the lower parts light broicnish 

 red^ with narrower dusky streaks. Female with the head and 

 upper part of the neck gregish-ichite, streaked with dusky, the 

 other parts nearly as in the male. Young of a duller broicnish- 

 red, with the central dark markings of the feathers broader. 

 Tail deeply emarginate. 



