241, 



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Length $ (Cauccasus) 24. Aving 18.5 ; tail 

 10.5 in. ; above dark brown, much paler and 

 greyer on head and hind neek and throat, 

 which are much .streaked Avith dark brown ; 

 tail Avith A-ery indi.stinct darker bar.s ; beloAV 

 dull rufous broAAii, brighter on abdomen, 

 AA'ith ])lackish .shaft-lines ; cere orange, bill 

 ))lack, feet yelloAV. 



Milvus migrans migrans* (Bodd.), Tabl. PI. 

 Enl., p. 28 (1783). [ex Daub., pi. 472, 

 Buffon etc., type loc. France, ajnid Hart.] 

 Black Kite. 



Size nearly the same ; tail more rufous broAA-n, 

 AAdth 7 or 8 more distinct blackish bands ; 

 head and hind neck broAvner ; ear-co\'erts 

 darker ; beloAv rather more rufous, especially 

 on abdomen, thighs and under AAdng- and 

 tail-coverts ; bill, as well as cere and feet, 

 bright A^ellow. 

 241a. Milvus migrans cer/i/ptius (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 

 2G1 (1788). [Egypt.] 

 YelloAv-billed Kite. 



Slightly smaller ; wing 17 in. ; less rufous, 

 more cinnamon-broAvn below ; bill yellow. 

 241b. Milvus migrans parasitus Daud., Traite, ii., 

 p. 150 (1800). [Ex Levaill— South Africa.] 

 Parasitic Kite. 



Length r^ 20 ; wing 19 in. ; head and hind 

 neck slightly rufescent, AA^th distinct central 

 stripes of black ; scapulars and Aving-coverts 



E., C. & S. 

 Europe, N. to 

 Finland, S. 

 to Mediter- 

 ranean and 

 N.W. Africa ; 

 Asia Minor, 

 C. Asia ; in 

 A\inter to 

 Tropical 

 Africa ; cas. 

 Brit. Is. 



N. & E. 

 Africa, 

 Palestine, 

 Arabia ; cas. 

 in S.E. 

 Europe. 



Africa, S. of 

 Sahara to 

 Cape Colony ; 

 Madagascar & 

 Comoro Is. 



* Qmelin's name korschwi (1771) should never have bean used for this 

 bird ; it does not seem to have been a form of Milvus he described at all. 



