FALCON. 105 



40— ARABIAN KITE. 



Faico Forskalii, Jnd. Orn.i. p. 20. Faun. Arab. p. vi. 1. Gm. Lin. i. 263. Daud. ii. 



150. Shaw's Zool. vii. 178. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 19. 

 Falco Eg}'ptius, G/n. Lin. i. 261. 

 Arabian Kite, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 34. 



SMALLER than the common Kite; length 18in.; bill and cere 

 yellow; feathers of the head narrow, rufous-brown, dashed with 

 black down the shafts ; back and wing coverts cinereous, with brown 

 shafts ; quills brown, within grey, banded with brown, the ends black; 

 tail the length of the body, and forked ; the wings, when closed, not 

 reaching to the end of it. Tlie feathers cinereous, banded with 

 brown ; legs yellow ; shins half covered with feathers. 



Said to be common in Egypt, and other parts of Africa, where it 

 sometimes migrates into Germany, but rarely breeds there ; has also 

 been met with in France and Switzerland, and may be considered as 

 no other than a variety of the Black Kite. M. Temminck places it 

 as a young bird of that species. 



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