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Rapaces — Diurnre. 

 FALCONIDJE. 



Genus Falco. ( Linnaeus. ) 

 Sub-genus Milvtjs. (Cuvier.) 



ARABIAN KITE. , 



Falco c&gyptius. 



Falco (Egyptius el forskaJilii, Gmelin. 



" parasiticus, Daudin. Latham. 



Milvus parasiticus, Kaup. Schlegel. 



" cegyptius, Degland. 



" (Btolius, Savignt. 



Falco aler, Temminck:. Vieillot. 



" " Ch. Bonapaete. 



Le parasite, Le Vaillant. 



Specific Characters. — Beak yellowish. Upper half of tarsi 

 clothed with feathers; internal toe shorter than the external, the 

 latter passing much beyond the middle of the median. Tail 

 more forked than in the Black Kite. Length twenty-one inches. 

 — Degland. 



Measurement. — Length of adult male in Norwich Museum 

 twenty inches. From carpal joint to tip of wing eighteen 

 inches. 



In the first edition of his "Manual" M. Temminck 

 confounded this with the preceding species, and the 



