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Order I. ACCIPITRES. Family II. Falcootd^. 



The fifth Subfamily, 



MILVINiE, or Kites, 



have the Bill short, weak, with the tip hooked and acute, and the lateral margins sinuated ; the Nostrils 

 basal and lateral, with the opening mostly in the form of an oblique slit ; the Wings long and pointed ; 

 the Tarsi hardly longer than the hind toe, and robust ; the Toes moderate, broad, and padded 

 beneath. 



Baza Hodgs* 



Bill moderate, elevated at the base, which is broad, the sides compressed, the culmen much arched, 

 and the lateral margins furnished with two small teeth near the tip ; the lower mandible also 

 furnished with small teeth near the tip ; the lores clothed with small feathers ; the nostrils placed in the 

 cere, in the form of an oblique slit. Wings lengthened, nearly reaching to the end of the tail, with the 

 third and fourth quills the longest. Tail long and broad. Tarsi thick and very short, longer than 

 the middle toe ; basal half plumed, and the other part covered with small scales. Toes thick, free at 

 their base, the inner longer than the outer ; the claws small and acute . 



These birds are found in India, its archipelago, and Australia. They are usually seen soaring high in the air, and 

 they are supposed, at least partly, to feed on honey and on the larvse of insects. 



1. B.lophotes (Temm.) G. R. Gray, PL col. t. 10. ■ — Buteo I 3. B. Reinwardtii (Mull.) Verh. over ile Nat.Gesch. der Nederl. 

 cristatus Vieitt.; Lopliotes indicus Less.; Lepidogenys Lathami | &c. No. 5. pi. 5. 



Gray ; Baza syama Hodgs. 



2. B. subcristata (Gould), P. Z. S. 1837. 14-0., Gould's B. of j 

 Austr. pi. 



Avicida St&ains.'f 



Bill strong, with the upper mandible furnished with two teeth, and the lower mandible emarginated. 

 Wings lengthened, with the fourth quill the longest. Tarsi not longer than the hind toe, the basal 

 half plumed and robust. Toes remarkably broad, the inner toe longer than the outer ; the claws strong 

 and curved. 



This division is peculiar to Western Africa. 



A. cuculoides Swains. B. of Western Afr. 1. pi. 1. 



* This genus was originally established by M. Lesson under the name of Lophotes in 1831, which word having been employed, it 

 becomes necessary to use the one next given, which is that of Mr. Hodgson (1836) as above. Mr. Gray had also proposed Lepidogenys in 

 1839. In 1841 Mr. Hodgson changed his name to Hyptiopus. 



f Established by Mr. Swainson in 1837, in his Birds of Western Africa. 



