241. 



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Length $ (Caucasus) 24, wing 18.5 ; tail 

 10.5 in. ; above dark brown, much paler and 

 greyer on head and hind neck and throat, 

 which are much streaked with dark brown ; 

 tail with very indistinct darker bars ; below 

 dull rufous brown, brighter on abdomen, 

 with blackish shaft -lines ; cere orange, bill 

 black, feet yellow. 



Milvus migrans migrans"^ (Bodd.), Tabl. PI. 

 Enl., p. 28 (1783). [ex Daub., pi. 472, 

 Buffon etc., type loc. France, apud Hart.] 

 Black Kite. 



Size nearly the same ; tail more rufous brown, 

 with 7 or 8 more distinct blackish bands ; 

 head and hind neck browner ; ear-coverts 

 darker ; below rather more rufous, especially 

 on abdomen, thighs and under wing- and 

 tail-coverts ; bill, as well as cere and feet, 

 bright yellow. 

 241a. Milvus migrans cegyptius (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 

 261 (1788). [Egypt.] 

 Yellow-billed Kite. 



Slightly smaller ; wing 17 in. ; less rufous, 

 more cinnamon-brown below ; bill yellow. 

 241b. Milvus migrans parasitus Daud., Traite, ii., 

 p. 150 (1800). [Ex LevailL— /Sfoz*^^ Africa.] 

 Parasitic Kite. 



Length ^ 20 ; wing 19 in. ; head and hind 

 neck slightly rufescent, with distinct central 

 stripes of black ; scapulars and wing-coverts 



E., C. & S. 

 Europe, N. to 

 Finland, S. 

 to Mediter- 

 ranean and 

 N.W. Africa ; 

 Asia Minor, 

 C. Asia ; in 

 winter to 

 Tropical 

 Africa ; cas. 

 Brit. Is. 



cas. 



N. & E. 

 Africa, 

 Palestine, 

 Arabia ; 

 in S.E. 

 Europe. 



Africa, S. of 

 Sahara to 

 Cape Colony ; 

 Madagascar & 

 Comoro Is. 



* Gmelin's name korschun (1771) should never have been used for this 

 bird ; it does not seem to have been a form of Milvus ho described at all. 



