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ARABIAN KITE. 
Rapaces — Diurn^t. 
FALCONID^. 
Genus — Milvus. fCuvier.J 

Generic Characters. — Beak straight at the base, curved from the cere to 
the point; cutting margin with a slight festoon. Nostrils oval, oblique. 
Wings long: the third or fourth primary longest. Tail long and generally 
forked. Legs short. Toes short and strong; the outer toe united at its 
base to the middle toe, but slightly reversible. Claws moderately long and 
curved. — Lacepede. 
ARABIAN KITE. 
"Milvus JEgypius. 
Falco /Egypius, 
" Forskahlii, 
" parasiticus, 
Milvus parasiticus, 
" /Egyptius, 
" Egypius, 
Falco ater, 
a <( 
Le parasite, 
Gmelin. Le Vaillant; O. A. pi. 22. 
Bree; 1 st. ed. 
Gmelin. 
Daudin. Latham. 
Kaup. Schlegel. 
Degland. . 
Gray. 
Temminck. Vieillot. 
Ch. Bonaparte. 
Le Vaillant.' 
Specific Characters — Beak yellowish. Upper half of tarsi clothed with 
feathers; internal toe shorter than the external, the latter passing much 
beyond the middle of the median. Tail more forked than in the Black Kite. 
Length twenty-one inches. — Degland. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male in Norwich Museum twenty inches. 
From carpal joint to tip of wing eighteen inches. 
In the first edition of his "Manual" M. Temminck confounded this 
with the Black Kite, and the same error was committed by Vieillot, 
