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Genus MILVUS Lacepede, Tableaux Ois. 1799, p. 4. 

 Type : M. milvus (Linn.). 



Jtfilints=a Kite in classical Latin : a kindred form mlllo occurs, as if from 

 rniidivio, minvMvugf from 7n?nwno=I twitter (Fick). 



Milvus milvus. Kite. 



FalcO milvus Lianceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 89 : Sweden. 



Milvus ictinus Sav. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, p. 319 ; 

 B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 99; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 335. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Scarce Kesidenl, 

 formerly abundant, but now met with in Wales only, where, 

 thanks to the efforts made to protect it from extinction, its 

 numbers have slowly increased from the five birds known to 

 exist in 1905. Elsewhere it is a very rare visitor, chiefly to 

 the eastern parts of Grreat Britain, but is said to have nested 

 in Devonshire in 1913. Its occurrence in Ireland is doubtful. 



General Distribution. — The Kite breeds in Scandinavia, 

 south of about 61° N. latitude, and in western Russia as far 

 east as Tula, Orel, and the valley of the Dnieper ; westwards it 

 is generally distributed in Europe down to the Mediterranean; 

 also in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the western Canary 

 Islands ; likewise in Asia Minor and Palestine. From the 

 more northern parts of its range it is migratory in winter, 

 but is resident in south Europe and north Africa. It is repre- 

 sented by a closely allied form in the Cape Verde Islands. 



Milvus migrans. Black Kite. 



FalcO migrans Boddaert, Table Planches Enl. 1783, 

 p. 28, no. 472 : no locality. 



Milvus korschun (Gmel.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 



p. 322. 

 Milvus migrans (Bodd.) ; B. 0. TI. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 99 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 337. 



Migrans =migrating. 



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