322 FALCONID^. 



/. Ad. sk. South Africa. Earl of Derby. 



m. Ad. St. South Aii-ica. South- African Museum. 



n. Ad. sk. Madagascar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Milvus korschun. 



Le Milan noir, Bnss. Orn. i. p. 413 (1760) ; Btiff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 472. 



Accipiter korschun, Gm. N. Comm. Petrt^}. xv. p. 444 (1771). 



Austrian Kite, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 62 (1781). 



Russian Kite, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 63 (1781). 



Falco migrans, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 28 (1783). 



Falco austriacus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 262 (1788). 



Falco ater, Gm. S. N. i. p. 262 (1788) ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, 



pi. 24 (1827) ; Schl. tf. Susem. Vog. Eur. Taf. 30. fig. 2 (1839) ; 



Bree, B. Eur. i. p. 101 (1866). 

 Milvus russicus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 148 (1800). 

 Milvus castaneus, Eaud. t. c. p. 148 (1800). 

 Milvus austriacus, Daud. t. c. p. 149 (1800). 

 Milvus ater, Baud. t. c. p. 149 (1800) ; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. p. 236 



(1858) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 25 (1867). 

 Falco fusco-ater, Mei/er, in Mey. u. Wolf. Taschenb. deutschl. Vogdk. 



i. p. 27 (1810) ; Naum. Vog. Detitschl. i. Taf. 31. fig. 2 (1822). 

 Accipiter regalis, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 356 (1811). 

 Milvus fuscus, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch. p. 53 (1831). 

 Milvus niger, Bp. Com}). List B. Eur. 8f N. Am. p. 4 (1838) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 24 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. (1850) ; Fritsch, Vog. 



Eur. tab. 9. fig. 2 (1858) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 77 



(1867) ; L)e(/l et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 65 (1867) ; Salvad. Faun. 



Ital. Ucc. p." 13 (1871). 

 Hydroictinia ater, Kaup, Classif. Sciug. tt. Vog. p. 115 (1844). 

 Milvus ffitolius, Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 32 (1854) ; id. Mus. P.-B. 



Milvi, p. 2 (1862) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 98 (1869). 

 Milvus migrans, Strtckl. Orn. Syn. p. 133 (1855) ; Newt. Ooth. Wolley. 



p. 116 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 26 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. 6f 



Zool. Ahyss. p. 300 (1870) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 203 (1870) ; 



id. It. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 61 (1870) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 341 ; NeiDt. ed. Yarr. i. p. 97 (1871) ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 197 



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



Adult. Above dark brown, the median wing-coverts paler and 

 more fulvous brown, with blackish shaft-stripes ; quills dark brown, 

 the secondaries rather lighter and paler on the inner web ; under 

 surface of the wing ashy brown, paler at base ; tail dark brown, 

 inclining to rufous brown at the tip, barred with very indistinct 

 bands of dark brown, scarcely visible ; head and throat all round 

 whitish, the ear-coverts washed with brown, all the feathers nar- 

 rowly but distinctly streaked with dark brown ; rest of under 

 surface rufous brown, inclining to clear rufous on the abdomen, the 

 breast broadly streaked with dark brown, the abdomen, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts more narrowly ; under wing-coverts dull brown, 

 washed with rufous and streaked with dark brown, the lower ones 

 ashy brown ; cere and gape orange ; bill black, yellowish at base ; 

 feet yellow, claws black ; iris pale greyish yellow, surrounded by a 

 black line. Total length 22 inches, culmen 1*6, wing 18-1, tail 11, 

 tarsus 2-2. 



