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Genus MILVUS, Cuvier, Le$. An. Comp. tab. 2 (1800). 



Milws = a Kite, in classical Latin ; a kindred form mitto occurs, as if from 

 *mmlivio, *minulivus, from mmuno = I twitter (Fick). 



Milvus ictinus. KITE. 



Milvus Ictinus, Savigny, Syst. Ois. *de PEgypte, p. 28 



(1810). 



Falco Milvus, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 126 (1766). 

 Falco milvus, Naum. i. p. 333. 



Milvus regalis, Macg. iii. p. 265 ; Gray, p. 9 ; Gould, i. pi. 22. 

 Milvus vulgaris, Hewitson, p. 36 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 71 ; id. 



ed. 3, i. p. 78. 

 Milvus ictinus, Newton, i. p. 92 ; Harting, p. 5 ; Dresser, v. 



p. 643. 

 Kite, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 66. 



Ictinus = iKTlvos, a Kite, in classical Greek. Perhaps from the root ik, to 

 strike, as in l, u// = a worm, Irrvt} = a Woodpecker, icere = to strike, &c. ; but 

 more probably from Sanskrit fjena = a Falcon, as if *i-jejeZi/os. Of. ucrts = a 

 polecat, "thief." 



Inhabits Central and Southern Europe and North Africa. 

 Formerly a common resident in Great Britain; now nearly 

 extinct, and seldom known to breed. A rare visitor to Ireland. 



Milvus migrans. BLACK KITE. 



Falco migrans, Boddaert, Table des Planches Enl. 

 p. 28. no. 472 (1783). 



Falco ater, Naum. i. p. 340. 



Milvus migrans, Newton, i. p. 97 ; Gould, i, pi. 23 ; Harting, 

 p. 88; Dresser, v. p. 651. 



Migrans = that migrates, from migro = I move from place to place. 



A summer visitor to Europe south of the Baltic, and 

 Western Asia ; accidental, only once recorded, in Great Bri- 

 tain (Hancock, ' Ibis/ 1867, p. 253) . Extends all over Africa. 



Genus ELANOIDES, Vieillot, Encycl. M^th. iii. p. 1204 



(1823). 



Elano'ides = resembling Elanus ; from Eldnus + eloos = form or likeness. 



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