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species. I do not find any character by which they can with certainty be distinguished from the 

 eggs of the Buzzard. 



The call-note or cry of the Black Kite is a shrill, whistling call, not easy to reproduce in 

 writing, but which is easily distinguishable to a practised ear from the call-note of the common 

 Kite. I have most frequently heard it in the spring, uttered when the birds were circling high 

 above their nesting-place. 



The specimens figured are an adult male from Seville and a young female from Malta, and 

 are the birds above described. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mm. H. E. Dresser. 



a, 2 ad. Stettin, 1861 (H. E. D.). b, <5 . Seville (Llanos). c, 6 . Southern Russia, April (W. Schliiter) . 

 d. South-eastern Persia (W. T. Blanford). 



E Mm. C. A. Wright. 

 a, 2 juv. Malta market, September 10th, 1872 (C. A. W.). 



E Mus. E. Schiitt 

 a, ad., b, pull. Baden (22, S.) , 



