150 
thigh feathers ; white band on tail much 
narrower ; white of throat more extensive 
and dark throat stripe narrower. 
Sub-Fam. VI. MILVINZL. 
Head usually closely feathered; loral bristles 
scanty or wanting; cere contracted; nostrils 
oval, oblique, generally closed in with a superior 
membrane ; bill usually rather weak, straight at 
base, curved from cere to point, the cutting edge 
at most slightly festooned, but in two or three 
genera either toothed or serrated ; wings usually 
long, more or less pointed; tail variable ; feet 
small and weak; tarsi feathered for a variable 
distance. 
Gen. LXXI. ELANOIDES Vieill. (1818). 
Type by monotypy “ Milans de la Caroline et du Paraguay ”’ 
=Falco forficatus L. 
Tail very long and deeply forked, outer feather 
much the longest ; wings very long and pointed, 
but not reaching beyond next outermost pair of 
tail-feathers. 
+245. Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linn.),S.N., N. America, 
i., p. 89 (1758). [“ America,” ex. Catesby = (breeds in 
Carolina. | S. United States 
Swallow-tailed Kite. but winters S. 
of them) ; 
Wing ¢ 418-447, 2 426-435 mm.; head, Mexico. 
neck all round, rump and entire under parts 
snowy white ; back, wings and tail glossy 
black with purplish and green reflections, 
the former especially on the scapulars and 
wings ; secondaries white on inner webs, 
except at tips. 
