10. LOPHOICTINIA. 



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brown striped with rufous down the centre of the feathers ; shaft- 

 lines blackish ; throat and sides of the face rufous brown; lores, 

 region of the eye, and upper portion of the ear-coverts blackish. 

 Habitat. All parts of Australia, New Gruinea, Duke of York 

 Island, India. 



Measurements of average-sized specimens from different localities. 



A 1 ^ ad. sk. Knuckey's Lagoon, Port Essington. Col. 



A 2 (? ad. sk. Eastern Creek, New South Wales. Pres. 



A 3 <y ad. sk. Yandembah ,, ,, Pch. 



A 4 (3^ ad. mntd. Wilcannia ,, ,, Col. 



10. LOPHOICTINIA. 



1. Lophoictinia isura. 



The Created Kite, Square-tailed Kite, Long-winged Kite. 



Milvus isurus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 140; id. Syn. Bds. 



Austr., pt. iii (1838) ; Gray, Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 24(1845) ; Go^dd, 



Bds. Aii,str., vol. i, pi 22 (1848) ; Bonap., Consp. Av., torn, i, p. 21 



(1850) ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bm Milvi, p. 4(1862) ; Gould, Handbk. 



Bds. Austr., vol. i, p. 51, sp. 22 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-list, Bds., 



vol. i, p. 27 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1875, p. 579 ; id. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. vii, p. 53 (1883) ; Sclater, List Vert. 



Aniinals, Zool. Gard., 9th ed., p. 401 (1896). 



Lophoictinia isura, Kauj}, Lsis, 1847, p. 117; Sharpe, Cat. Bds., Brit- 



J\Jus., vol. i, p. 326 (1874) ; Gurney, List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 81 



(1884) ; Broadh., Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensld., vol. iii, p. 251 (1887) ; 



Ramsay, Tab. List Austra. Bds., p. 1 (1888) ; L>e Vis Rep. Sci. 



Exped. N. Queensld., p. 89 (1888) ; North, Xests and Eggs Austr. 



Bds., p. 11, pi. iv, figs. 3 and4( 18S9) ; Cox and Ham., Proc. Linn. 



Soc, N.S. ir., vol. iv, 2nd. ser., p. 398 (1890) ; Sharpe, Index 



Goidd's Woi-ks, p. 187 (1893) ; Gurney, jun.. Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 



26 (1894) ; Keartl. Vict. Nat, vol. xiii. No, 5, p. 61 (1896). 



Milvus pacificus, Strickl. Orn. Syn., p. 135 (1855). 



Adult female. The feathers of head and nape elonp^ated into an 



occipital crest ; forehead whitish buft" •, sides of the face, chin, and 



ear-coverts greyish white, the terminal portion of each feather 



