FALCON. ^ 



37— KITE. 



Falco Milviis, /iirf. OrH. i. p 20: Lin. Si/st.i. 126: Faun. Suec. "No-br. Gm.Lin.i. 



261. RaiiSi/n.p.n. A.6. Will. il.t. 6. Brun.'No.S. Mull. 'So. 6\. Georgi. 



164. /irant. e/. 326. G^r. Orn. i. t. 39. Borowsk.Nat.n.^.l2. Daud. Orn.u. 



147. Beckft. Deuts. il. s. 243. Bris. i. 414. t. 33. Id. 8do. 118. STiaw's Zooh 



vii. p. 103. Tem.Man.d'Orn.^.lS. Id. ed.'n. ji.bd. 

 Falco Cauda forcipata, Klein, Av. 51. 13. Id. Ov. 19. t. 6. f. 1. 

 Milan royal, Biif. i. 197. t. 7. PI. enl. 422. Voy. en Barb. i. 266. 

 II Nibbio, Cet. uc. Sard. 57. Zinnan. Ov. 82, 1. 13. f.73. 

 DerWeyhe, Naturf.8. s. 47. 

 Hunergeyer, Licht. 3Iag. iv. 2. 6. 



^^'eisser Milan, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 63 ? Wirs. Vog, t. 48. 

 Kite, G'eH. %n.i. p.61. Id. Sup. p- 17. Id. Sup. Vi. p. SO. Br. Zoo/, i. No. 53. Id. 



fol. t. A. 2. Id. ed. 1812. i. p. 229. Arct. Zool. ii. 223. H. Will. Engl. p. 74. pi. 



6. Alb.'\. pi. 4. Hayeses Br. Birds, pi. 5. Bewick, \. pi. p. 21. Leivin's Birds, 



i. pi. 10. Id. Eggs, pi. 2. f. 3. Wale. Birds, i. pi. 10. Pult. Dors. p. 3. Donov. 



Br. Birds, ii. pi. 47. Grav€s''s Br. Birds, Orn. Diet. Sf Sup. 



THIS species weighs 2 lbs. 6 oz. ; length two feet ; the female 

 is larger, and weighs four ounces more ; in length 2 ft. 4 in. ; breadth 

 o J feet. The bill is brownish ; cere yellow ; irides straw-colour ; 

 leathers of the head and neck hoary white, long and narrow, with a 

 da.sh of brown down the shaft of each ; body ferruginous, marked 

 down the shafts Avith a darker colour; quills blackish; tail twelve 

 inches long, and much forked; legs yellow; claws black. In the 

 the female the colours are less ferruginous, and incline more to brown. 



It is very common in England, and in the warmer parts of tlie 



kingdom may be seen at all times ; makes the nest generally between 



the forks of a tree, of sticks, lined with wool, hair, feathers, and 



not unfrequently bits of rags, or any soft material it meets with^ 



The eggs are three, or at most four in number, of a bluish white, 



cinereous red at one end, blending itself with tlie white by small 



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