*248c. 
+2484. 
248e. 
154 
Milvus migrans parasitus (Daud.), Traité i1., 
p. 150 (1800). [Ex Levaill.—South Africa] 
Parasitic Kite. 
Slightly smaller ; wing 3 415-425, ? 425- 
450 mm.; less rufous, more cinnamon- 
brown below, with indistinct black shaft- 
lines ; tail with fairly distinct darker bars ; 
bill yellow. 
Milvus migrans govinda Sykes, P.ZS., 
1832, p. 81. [Deccan, type in Brit. Mus.] 
Indian Kite. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 430-450, 2 460-480 mm. ; 
head and hind neck slightly rufescent, with 
distinct central stripes of black ; scapulars 
and wing-coverts edged with buff; tail 
distinctly barred with blackish; below 
dull rufous brown ; the breast feathers with 
pale fulvous stripes next the dark shaft- 
streaks ; vent and under tail-coverts more 
buffish ; cere and feet yellow, bill blackish. 
Milvus migrans affinis Gould, P.Z.S., 1837, 
p- 140 (1838). [Australia =New S. Wales, 
apud Math.] 
Allied Kite. 
Rather smaller ; wing ad. 420 mm. ; 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 pale brown, 
washed with rufous and with blackish shaft- 
streaks ; below dull rufous brown, more 
dusky on chest and flanks, with distinct 
black shaft-streaks ; cere and feet yellow, 
bill blackish. 
Africa, S. of 
Sahara to 
Cape Colony ; 
Madagascar, 
Comoro Is. (?) 
India ; Ceylon ; 
Burma ; 
Malay Penins., 
Siam; Russian 
Turkestan (?) 
(Laubmann) ; 
Cochin China, 
Formosa, 
Hainan (?). 
Australia, 
New Guinea, 
Celebes, Timor, 
Lesser Sunda Is. 
