98 



241c, 



edged with buff ; tail distinctly barred with 

 blackish ; below dull rufous browai ; the 

 breast feathers with pale fulvoi;s stripes 

 next the dark shaft-streaks ; vent and nnder 

 tail-coverts more huffish ; cere and feet yellow, 

 bill blackish. 



Milvus migrans govinda Sykes, P.Z.S., 1832, 

 p. 81. [Deccan, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Indian Kite. 



India ; 

 Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; 

 Russian 

 Turkestan. 



241 d, 



Rather smaller ; wing 16.5 in. ; above 

 blackish brown, paler on wing-coverts, with 

 blackish shaft-stripes ; tail dark brown, with 

 remains of dark bars on centre feathers ; head 

 and hind neck j)ale brown, washed Avith rufous 

 and with blackish shaft-streaks ; below dull 

 rufous brown, more dusk}'" on chest and 

 flanks, with distinct black shafb -streaks ; cere 

 and feet yellow, bill blackish. 

 Milvus migrans affinis Gould, P.Z.S., 1837, 

 p. 140 (1838). [Australia =New S. Wales, 

 apiid Math.] 

 Allied Kite. 



Australia, 

 Celebes, 

 Lesser Sunda 

 Is. 



242. 



Larger, length c^ 25.5 ; wing 21 ; tail 13.2 in. ; 

 above dark chocolate browii ; head, hind 

 neck and wing-coverts more rufous and with 

 black shaft-streaks ; tail paler brown, more 

 rufous on central feathers and distinctly 

 barred with darker brown ; lores, forehead 

 and cheeks white with black shaft-lines ; ear- 

 coverts brownish black ; below deep rufous 

 brown, clearer on abdomen, with broad black 

 central stripes, especially on chest ; cere and 

 feet greenish yellow ; bill black. 

 Milvus lineatus (Gray) in Hardw., III. Ind. 

 Zool., i., p. 1, pi. 18 (1832). [China.] [= ^^. 

 melanotis, auct. plur.] 

 Black-eared Kite. 



Japan, N. 

 China, 



Mongolia, to 

 Cent. Asia & 

 Himalayas, 

 W. to Ural; 

 in winter S. 

 to Burma, 

 N. India & 

 Hainan. 



