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Size similar ; wing ad. 292-310 mm. ; tail 

 146-160 mm. ; above paler, more silvery 

 grey ; tail whitish ; primaries darker below 

 nearly blackish ; outer under wing-coverts 

 black, forming a conspicuous patch below ; 

 axillaries white. 



*260. Elanus leucurus leucurus (Vieill.), N.D., 

 p. 563 [err. 566] (1818). [Paraguay, 



XX. 



ex Azara.] 



Southern White-tailed 



Kite. 



S. America 

 (except extreme 

 S.). 



Rather larger, with longer tail ; wing ad. 

 294-304 mm. ; tail 158-175 mm. ; above 

 darker bluish ash, inner webs of secondaries 

 paler, nearly white ; black shoulder patch 

 above variable, but not generally so large ; 

 black patch below smaller and confined 

 to the outer greater under wing-coverts. 



■[■260a. Elanus leucurus majusculus Bangs & Pen- Southern 



ard, Pr. New Engl. Zool. CI. vii., p. 46 United States 



(1920). [San RaJael.Cal., type in M.C.Z., and Central 



Harvard] America. 

 White-tailed Kite. 



Larger ; wing ad. 305-322 mm. ; tail 180- 

 185 mm. ; rather darker above, and with 

 usually a larger wing patch. 



261. Elanus scriptus Gould, 

 [S. Australia.^ 

 Letter-winged Kite. 



P.Z.S., 1842, p. 80. 



Wing 292 mm. ; above paler, ashy white, 

 with the black patches on wing-coverts and 

 edge of wing ; axillaries as well as under 

 wing-coverts black, except bend of wing 

 which is white. 



N.S. Wales, 

 Victoria, 

 S. Austredia. 



