150 
thigh feathers ; white band on tail much 
narrower ; white of throat more extensive 
and dark throat stripe narrower. 
Sub-Fam. VI. MILVINZ. 
Head usually closely feathered; loral bristles 
scanty or wanting; cere contracted; nostrils 
oval, oblique, generally closed in with a superior 
membrane ; bill usually rather weak, straight at 
base, curved from cere to point, the cutting edge 
at most slightly festooned, but in two or three 
genera either toothed or serrated ; wings usually 
long, more or less pointed; tail variable; feet 
small and weak; tarsi feathered for a variable 
distance. 
Gen. LXXI._ ELANOIDES Vieill. (1818). 
Type by monotypy “ Milans de la Caroline et du Paraguay ”’ 
= Falco forficatus L. 
Tail very long and deeply forked, outer feather 
much the longest ; wings very long and pointed, 
but not reaching beyond next outermost pair of 
tail-feathers. 
$245. Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linn.), S.N., 
i., p. 89 (1758). [“ America,” ex. Catesby = 
Carolina. | 
Swallow-tailed Kite. 
Wing ¢ 418-447, 2 426-435 mm. ; head, 
neck all round, rump and entire under parts 
snowy white ; back, wings and tail glossy 
black with purplish and green reflections, 
the former especially on the scapulars and 
wings ; secondaries white on inner webs, 
except at tips. 
N. America, 
(breeds in 
S. United States 
but winters S. 
of them) ; 
Mexico. 
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