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Gen. LXXIX. GYPOICTINIA Kaup (1847). 
Type by monotypy Buteo melanosternon Gould. 
Bill not toothed; head crested; loral space 
feathered ; wings reaching to end of tail ; greater 
part of tarsus bare in front. Size large (length 
24 in.). 
257. Gypoictinia melanosterna (Gould), P.Z.S., 
1840, p. 162 (1841). [N.S. Wales, type 
in Mus. Philad. Acad. } 
Blackbreasted Kite. 
Wing 3 445-460, 2 465-470, tail 215 mm. ; 
general plumage above blackish, margined 
with rutous especially on rump ; crest and 
nape tawny rufous with black centres to 
the feathers; below pale tawny rufous, 
with black shaft-lines; tail ashy brown 
above, whitish near base below ; primaries 
white on inner webs. Dark phase [old or 
melanistic ?] above much blacker; breast 
black. 
Interior of 
N.S. Wales, 
S. Australia, 
W. Australia, 
Northern 
Territory. 
Gen. LXXX. ELANUS Savigny (1809). 
Type by monotypy F. cesius Sav. =Falco ceruleus Desf. 
Tarsus feathered for nearly two-thirds of its length 
in front ; claws without groove on under surface. 
Size small (length 12-14 in.) ; sexes nearly similar 
in size. 
7*258. Elanus ceruleus ceruleus (Desf.) Mém. 
Acad. R. des Sciences, 1787, p. 503, pl. xv. 
(1789). [Near Algiers.] 
African Black-winged Kite. 
Wing ad. 272-285, tail 130 mm.; above 
ashy grey, lighter on head ; forehead, eye- 
brow, and face white ; feathers round eye 
black ; lesser and median wing-coverts and 
Africa, from 
Mediterranean 
to the Cape and 
Madagascar ; 
Palestine, 
S.W. Asia (?) 
