56. ELANOIDES. 317 



Young. Similar to the adult, but much paler, the wing-coverts 

 tipped with fulvous, and the head streaked with rufous or rufous 

 buff; under surface of body fulvous white, with faint indications of 

 dark brown streaks and margins to the feathers of the breast. 



Ifab. The whole of Australia and New Caledonia. 

 «. Vix ad. St. S. Australia. Sh- George Grey [P.! 



b. Ad. St. S. Australia. Sir George Grey rRl. 



c. Ad. St. Port Essington. Dr. Sibbald rP.]. 



Ad. sk Port Essington. J. B. Jukes, Esq. fP.l. 



e 2 «<i- sk. Perth, W. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [0.1 



f. Ad. sk. N.E. Australia. Sir T. MitcheU [P.l. 



ff. Ad. sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



Type of H. canwtcs. 



56. ELANOIDES. 



Elanoides, Vieill. N.Bict. (THist. Nat. xxiv. p. 101 (1818). . E. imlltas. 



Range. Central and southern States of N. America, southwards to 

 Columbia and Brazil. Accidental in Europe. 



1. Elanoides furcatus. 



The Swallow-tailed Hawk, Cateshj, N. H. Carol, i. p. 4, pi 4 (1731) 

 Le Milau de la Caroline, Brm. Orn. i. p. 418 (1760) 

 Falco furcatus Lum. S. N. i. p. 129 (1766) ; Shaw ^ Nodd. Nat. 

 Misc. pi. 204 (l/9o) ; Baud. Traile, ii. p. 1-52 (1800) ; Wils. Am 



t'p'q^- I ?' iPion^ ^°'- ^-^ (1^^2) 5 '^^^'^- ''■ '^««^'«- Vog. Eur. 

 laf. 32. fig. 1 (1839). ^ 



Cola-tixera, Amru, Apmit. i. p. 169 (1802). 



Milvus furcatus, rieill. Ow. A7n. Sept. p. 38, pi. 10 (1807) 



Elanoides yetapa, Bomi. et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1205 (1823) 



Elanoides furcatus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ni. p. 190.5 (1823) • 



SMI. 0,-n.Spi. p. 141 (1855) ; Scl. ^- Salt: Ibis, 1859, p. 220 j 



Oiven Ihs, 1860, p. 240; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Milvi, p. 5 (1862) • 



Scl. 8f Salv. Xo7nencl. p. 121 (1873). 

 Elanus fui-catus, Vig. Zool. Jwrn. i. p. 340 (1824). 

 Nauclerus furcatus, Vig. Zool. Joiirn. ii. p. 387 (1825) ; Gotdd B 



-^"lo'vfion^ ^^^^J^ ' ^'''^- ^- ^'"- f°l- Pl- ^2, et ed. 8vo, i. p.' 78! 



(1844) ; G>rig Gen. B I p. 25, pi. 9. fig. 9 (1845) ; Hartllnd. 



Azara, p. 5i (1847) ; Cab. in Schmnb. Bets. Guian. iii. p. 735 (1848)- 



Bfy. Consp.y p 21 (1850); Eanp, Contr. Om. 1850, p. 57; Burm. 



Th. Bras. II. p. 110 (1856) ; Cass, in Baird's B. K Am. p. 36 (1860); 



f T^l'si*'?' ^^f'J- p'5 ; ^^ot. Ois. Trinid. p. 30 (1866) ; Gundi. 



J.J. O. 1871, p. 370; Aewt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. p. 103(1871)- Pel- 



Orn. Bras. p. 6 (1871). 

 Falco yetapa. Max. Beitr. Orn. Bras. iii. Abth. i. p. 141 (1830) 

 Nauclerus forficatus, Ridgxvay, Pr. Phil. Acad. 1870, p. 144. 



Adult. Head and neck all round, as well as the hinder part of 

 back and rump and entire under surface, pure white ; rest of the 

 body blackish, with varying shades according to the light ; the wings 

 shaded externally with ashy grey, glossed with purple or bronzy 

 green, the latter especially distinct on the two outer tail-feathers'- 



