BLACK KITE. 105 



tract as sudden a crowd as any otlier unexpected 

 phenomenon, and would doubtless be recorded in 

 the public prints as an event of singular curiosity. 



Varf 



RUSSIAN KITE, 



Length twenty-one inches and a half: colour 

 pale brown, with bright chesnut head and throat : 

 bill lead-colour, cere green ; legs yellow ; tail fork- 

 ed. Described in the Petersburg Transactions, 

 and said to be often found at Tanain near Tscbercask* 



BLACK KITE, 



Falco ater. F, cera pedlbusqueflavis, corpore supra fusco-nigrB, 

 capite et subtus albidiore, caudaforficata. Lath. ind. orn. 



Blackish- brown Kite, with yellow cere and legs, head and 

 under parts whitish, and forked tail. 



Falco ater. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



Black Kite. Lath. syn. 



Smaller than the Common Kite, and of a dark 

 blackish brown colour above, with the head, breast, 

 and under parts whitish: bill, cere, and legs like 

 those of the Common ICite. Native of Germany. 



