320 FALCONID^. 



Milvus regalis, Roitx, Orn. P)-ov. i. p. 44, pis. 26, 27 (1825) ; MacgiU. 



Brit. B. iii. p. 265 (1840) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 24 (1845) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 21 (1850) ; Schl. Vog. JSfederl. Ind. pi. 31 (1854); Strickl. 



Orn. Syn. p. 132 (1855) ; Sundei: Sv. Foql. p. 235, pi. xxix. fig. 4 



(1858) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. 6. fig. 7 (1858) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Milvi, p. 1 (1862); i)egl. et Gerhe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 64(1867); Loche, 



Expl. Sci. Alger. Ois. i. p. 76 (1867) ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. pt. xiii. 



(1868); Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 26 (1869) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 



p. 97 (1869); Salvad. Faun. Hal. Ucc. p. 13 (1871); Shelley, B. 



Egypt, p. 195 (1872) ; Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 126 (1873). 

 Milvus ruber, Brehm, Vog. Deutscht. p. 50 (1831). 

 Milvus vulgaris, Selhy, Br. B. i. p. 74, pi. 5 (1833) ; Goidd, B. Eur. 



i. pi. 28 (1837). 



Adult. Above brown, the centres of the feathers darker with 

 rufous edgings, gradually shading into buff on the extreme margin ; 

 the wing-coverts decidedly paler-edged ; primary coverts and pri- 

 maries black, white at the base of the inner web ; the secondaries 

 paler brown, with rufescent margins ; lower back and rump dark 

 brown ; the upper tail-coverts rufous, washed with brown ; tail 

 rufous with fulvous tips, the centre feathers paler; the outer feathers 

 dark brown on the outer web, especially towards the tip ; the inner 

 web partially barred with dark brown ; head, sides of the face, and 

 throat whitish streaked with dark brown, more narrowly on the two 

 latter ; chest pale rufous, the feathers margined with fulvous and 

 broadly streaked down the centre with brown ; rest of under surface 

 bright rufous, with longitudinal central streaks of dark brown, very 

 narrow on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; lower wing-coverts 

 and axillaries dark brown, margined with deep rufous, the lowest 

 ones greyish ; cere yellow ; bill horn-eolour ; feet yellow ; iris yel- 

 low. Total length 24 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 20-4, tail 15, tar- 

 sus 2-2. 



Hah. Europe generally, breeding in Southern Scandinavia as far 

 as 61° N. lat. Rarer in Eastern Europe. 



2. Milvus SBgyptius. 



Arabian Kite, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 61 (1781). 



Falco aegyptius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 261 (1788, ex Forsk.) ; Bree, B. Eur. 



i. p. 105 (1866). 

 Falco forskahli, Gm. S. N. i. p. 261 (1788, ex Forsk.). 

 Le Parasite, Levaill, Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 88, pi. 22 (1799). 

 Falco parasitus, Baud. Traiie, ii. p. 150 (1800, ex Levaill.). 

 Falco parasiticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. v (1801) ; Schl. u. Susetn. 



Vog. Eur. Taf. 31 (1839;. 



