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*248c. Milvus migrans parasitus (Daud.), Traiteii., 

 p. 150 (1800). [Ex Levaill.— 5oM^A Africa] 

 Parasitic Kite. 



SUghtly smaUer ; wing <? 415-425, ? 425- 

 450 mm. ; less rufous, more cinnamon- 

 brown below, with indistinct black shaft- 

 lines ; tail with fairly distinct darker bars ; 

 bill yellow. 



Africa, S. of 

 Sahara to 

 Cape Colony ; 

 Madagascar, 

 Comoro Is. (?) 



t248d. Milvus migrans govinda Sykes, P.Z.S., 

 1832, p. 81. [Deccan, type in Brit. Mus.j 

 Indian Kite. 



Larger ; wing <? 430-450, ? 460-480 mm. ; 

 head and hind neck slightly rufescent, with 

 distinct central stripes of black ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts edged with buff ; tail 

 distinctly barred with blackish; below 

 dull rufous brown ; the breast feathers with 

 pale fulvous stripes next the dark shaft- 

 streaks ; vent and under tail-coverts more 

 bufiish ; cere and feet yellow, bill blackish. 



India ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; 

 Malay Penins., 

 Siam ; Russian 

 Turkestan (?) 

 (Laubmann) ; 

 Cochin China, 

 Formosa, 

 Hainan (?). 



248e. Milvus migrans affinis Gould, P.Z.S., 1837, AustraHa, 



p. 140 (1838). [Australia =New S. Wales, New Guinea, 



apud Math.] Celebes, Timor, 



Allied Kite. Lesser Sunda Is. 



Rather smaller ; wing ad. 420 mm. ; above 

 blackish brown, paler on wing-coverts, with 

 blackish shaft-stripes ; tail dark brown, 

 with remains of dark bars on centre 

 feathers ; head and hind neck pale brown, 

 washed with rufous and with blackish shaft- 

 streaks ; below dull rufous brown, more 

 dusky on chest and flanks, with distinct 

 black shaft-streaks ; cere and feet yellow, 

 bill blackish. 



