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RAFACES — DlURN^E. 
FALCONIBJE. 
Genus — Elanus. (Savigny.J 
Generic Characters. — Beak short, strongly bent from its origin with a 
very hooked tip; cere very hairy; feet short; tarsi partly feathered; toes 
divided. Wings long; the first and second quill feathers nearly equal, 
second longest of all. Tail more or less forked. — Temminck. 
BLACK-WINGED KITE. 
Elanus melanopterus. 
Elanus melanopterus, Datjdin. Leach. Kaup. Gray. 
" " Le Vaillant. Schlegel. Gould. 
" " Naumann. Bonaparte. Degland. 
" ccesius, Savigny. 
Falco melanopterus, Latham. Daudin. Bree ist. ed. 
" " Temminck. Schinz. 
" vociferus et sonninensis, Latham. 
Flanoides ccesius, Vieillot. 
" Le Blac, Le Vaillant. 
Falken Milan, Of the Germans. 
Kupasee or Kapasi, C/ianwa, and 
Chamva Musaher, Hindustani. 
Specific Characters. — Tail not long, nearly square ; upper two-thirds of tarsi 
clothed with feathers ; external toe much shorter than the internal, the latter 
reaching to the anterior third part of the median. Feet and toes, yellow. 
Iris most brilliant orange red. 
Measurement. — Length twelve to fourteen inches. — Degland. 
This beautiful little Falcon, so well known to ornithologists from 
Gould's exquisite plate in the "Birds of Europe/' is the last of its 
family which I shall have to introduce into this work. It is an African 
