100 FALCONID^E. 



Elanoides furcatus. SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. 

 Falco furcatus, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 129 (1766). 



Nauclerus furcatus, Macg. iii. p. 277 ; Gray, p. 10 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 77; id. ed. 3, i. p. 84; Newton, i. p. 103; 



Harting, p. 88. 

 Swallow-tailed Kite, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 71. 



Furcatus = forked, from furca = a fork ; from the shape of its tail. 



An inhabitant of Tropical America, breeding as far north as 

 Wisconsin : a very rare accidental straggler to Great Britain. 



[Genus ELANUS, Savigny, Descr. de 1'Egypte, i. p. 97 

 (1809). 



Elanus, from eXavos = a Kite. 



Elanus cceruleus. BLACK-WINGED KITE. 



Falco coeruleus, Desfontaines } Mem. Acad. R. des 

 Sciences, Paris, p. 503 (1787). 



jl , Elanus cseruleus, Dresser, v. p. 663. 



C&ruleus = dark blue, in classical Latin. 



One is said to have been shot at Harristown Bay, near 

 Beauparc, co. Meath, Ireland, about 1862 ('Ibis/ 1872, 

 pp. 470, 471 ; ' Zoologist/ 1875, p. 4455). It inhabits Africa 

 and Asia, as far east as India; but rarely strays north, 

 although it has occurred in Belgium.] 



Genus PERNIS, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 322 (1817). 



Pernis = Trepvis, a late Greek word akin to irrepvis, a kind of Hawk men- 

 tioned by Aristotle; cf. Trrepva = the heel, rrrepvis = " long-heeled," perna = 

 the ham. 



Pernis apivorus. 



Falco apivorus, Linn&us, S. N. i. p. 130 (1766). 



Falco apivorus, Naum. i. p. 367, xiii. p. 28. 

 Pernis apivora, Macg. iii. p. 254. 



