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249. 



249a. 



lesser and median wing-coverts and a patch, 

 on outer edge of wing black ; tail whitish, the 

 2 centre feathers ashy grey ; below silky 

 white ; sides of breast pale silvery grey, wing 

 quills dark or blackish slate below ; cere 

 and feet yellow ; bill blackish ; iris carmine. 

 Immature browner above and streaked with 

 rufous on chest and flanks. 

 Elanus cceruleus ccer ulcus (Desf .) Mem. Acad. 

 R. des Sciences, 1787, p. 503, pi. xv. (1789). 

 [near Algiers.] 

 Black-winged Kite. 



Slightly larger ; wing $ 11.60-12 ; tail 6 in. ; ^ 

 wing 11.75 in. ; above ashy grey ; primaries 

 slate ; wing-coverts black, the shoulder white 

 on edge ; black patch on outer edge of wing 

 nearly absent ; 2 centre tail-feathers paler 

 grey, rest white ; fore -part of head and entire 

 under parts silky white, including under wing- 

 coverts ; wing quills white on basal half below. 

 Immature : head and nape white, streaked 

 with brown ; above browner, with white 

 margins to all the feathers, including wing- 

 coverts and quills. 



Elanus coiruleus hyj^oleucus Gould, P.Z.S., 

 1850, p. 127. [Macassar, type in Norwich 

 Mus.] 

 White-breasted Kite. 



Africa N. to 

 Mediter- 

 ranean ; 

 Palestine, 

 S.W. Asia, 

 India, 

 Ceylon* ; 

 Burma ; cas. 

 in S. Europe. 



Philippine 

 Is., Java, 

 Borneo, 

 Celebes. 



250. 



Size similar ; wing ad, 11.50-12.30 in. ; tail 

 5.75-6.30 in. ; 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 axillaris axillaris Lath., Ind. Orn. 

 Suppl., i., p. ix. (1801). [New S. Wales.] 

 Black-shouldered Kite. 



E. Australia. 



* Ceylon birds have the smallest wing measurement and the primaries 

 are darkest below, right to the base of the feathers. 



