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SECTION II.—KITES. 
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS. 
Feathers upon the head and neck narrow and elongated. 
Nostrils placed rather obliquely. — Wings very long ; the first 
quill-feather short; the third nearly equal in length to the 
fourth, or longest feather. 'Tarsi scaled, short, feathered a 
little blow the knee. Tail rather long, and much forked. 
Pounce their prey upon the ground 
- Kite, or Glead.— Kaleo Milvus, Zinn. 
PLATE 5. 
Falco Milvus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 126. 12.—Faun. Suec. No. 57.—Gmel. Syst. 
1. p. 261.— Will. p. 41. t. 6. Raii, Syn. p. 17. A. 6.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 
1. p. 20. 37.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 25. 
Milvus regalis, Briss. 1. p. 414. 35. t. 33.—Jd. 8vo, p. 118. 
Le Milan Royal, Buff. Ois. v. 1. p. 197.—Jd. Pl. Enl. 422.-Temm. Man. 
d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 59. 
Rother Milan, Bechst. Tasschenb.. Deut. v. 1. p. 13. 
Kite, Br. Zool. 1. No. 53.—Jd. fol. t. A. 2.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 223. H.— 
Will. (Ang.) p. 74.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 10.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 61. 43. 
—Sup. p. 17.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Jd. Suppl. Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. 
p- 21.—Haye’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 5.—Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 103.—Pult. Cat. 
Dorset. p. 3.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 10.—Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 47. 
Falco Austriacus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 262.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. i. t. 39. 
Austrian Kite, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 62. 45. young bird. 
Provincial, Puttock, Fork-tail Glead. 
This beautiful falcon, distinguished from the rest of cur 
native species by its forked tail, is the only British member 
of the second section. 
Its measurements are considerable, in proportion to the gize. 
weight of its body, as it frequently exceeds two feet two inches 
in length, and five feet along the extended wings. 
The Kite is variously diffused throughout England, being 
a common bird in many parts of the country, and rare in 
others. In all the wooded districts of the eastern and mid- Locality. 
Jand counties it is abundant: it is also met-with in West- 
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