150 



thigh feathers ; white band on tail much 

 narrower ; white of throat more extensive 

 and dark throat stripe narrower. 



Sub-Fam. VI. MILVINM. 



Head usually closely feathered ; loral bristles 

 scanty or wanting ; cere contracted ; nostrils 

 oval, oblique, generally closed in with a superior 

 membrane ; bill usually rather weak, straight at 

 base, curved from cere to point, the cutting edge 

 at most slightly festooned, but in two or three 

 genera either toothed or serrated ; wings usually 

 long, more or less pointed ; tail variable ; feet 

 small and weak ; tarsi feathered for a variable 

 distance. 



Gen. LXXI. ELANOIDES Vieill. (1818). 



Type by monotypy " Milans de la Caroline et du Paraguay 



=Falco forficatus L. 



Tail very long and deeply forked, outer feather 

 much the longest ; wings very long and pointed, 

 but not reaching beyond next outermost pair of 

 tail-feathers. 



t245. Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linn.), S.N., 

 i., p. 89 (1758). ["America," ex. Catesby = 

 Carolina.] 

 Swallow-tailed Kite. 



Wing <? 418-447, ? 426-435 mm. ; head, 

 neck all round, rump and entire under parts 

 snowy white ; back, wings and tail glossy 

 black with purpUsh and green reflections, 

 the former especially on the scapulars and 

 wings ; secondaries white on inner webs, 

 except at tips. 



N. America, 

 (breeds in 

 S. United States 

 but winters S. 

 of them) ; 

 Mexico. 



