*260. 
162 
Size similar ; wing ad. 292-310 mm. ; tail 
146-160 mm. ; above paler, more silvery 
grey ; tail whitish ; primaries darker below 
nearly blackish ; outer under wing-coverts 
black, forming a conspicuous patch below ; 
axillaries white. 
Elanus leucurus leucurus (Vieill.), N.D., 
xx., p. 563 [err. 566] (1818). [Paraguay, 
ex Azara.] 
Southern White-tailed Kite. 
Rather larger, with longer tail; wing ad. 
7260a. 
261. 
294-304 mm.; tail 158-175 mm.; above 
darker bluish ash, inner webs of secondaries 
paler, nearly white ; black shoulder patch 
above variable, but not generally so large ; 
black patch below smaller and confined 
to the outer greater under wing-coverts. 
Elanus leucurus majusculus Bangs & Pen- 
ard, Pr. New Engl. Zool. Cl. vii., p. 46 
(1920). [San Rafael, Cal., type in M.C.Z., 
Harvard] 
White-tailed Kite. 
Larger ; wing ad. 305-322 mm. ; tail 180- 
185 mm. ; rather darker above, and with 
usually a larger wing patch. 
Elanus scriptus Gould, P.Z.S., 1842, p. 80. 
[S. Australia. ] 
Letter-winged Kite. 
Wing 292 mm.; above paler, ashy white, 
with the black patches on wing-coverts and 
edge of wing; axillaries as well as under 
wing-coverts black, except bend of wing 
which is white. 
S. America 
(except extreme 
Southern 
United States 
and Central 
America. 
N.S. Wales, 
Victoria, 
S. Australia. 
