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Gen. LX.XIII. MILVUS Lacep. (1799). 
Type by tautonomy Falco milvus 
Tail forked, but difference between longest and 
shortest feather less than difference between tips 
of primaries and tips of secondaries. Size moder- 
ate (length 24-25 mm.) 
$247. Milvus milvus milvus (Linn.), S.N.,1., p. 89 
(1758). [Europe, Asia, Africa—type loc. 
S. Sweden, apud Hartert.] 
Common Kite. 
Wing ad. 480-525, tail 350-380 mm. ; 
plumage above brown with rufous margins, 
the wing-coverts paler ; primaries black ; 
rump dark brown; upper tail-coverts 
rufous ; tail rufous, tipped with fulvous, 
the outer feathers partly barred with dark 
brown on inner webs ; head, face and throat 
whitish streaked with dark brown; chest 
pale rufous, with dark central streaks and 
paler edges; below bright rufous, with 
dark central streaks; bill horn colour ; 
cere and feet yellow. 
247a. Milvus milvus fasciticauda Hart., Bull. 
B.O.C., p. 89 (1914). [¢ Santo Antao, Cape 
Verd Is., in Tring Mus.] 
Cape Verd Kite. 
Wing ¢ 445-460, 2 475-490 mm. ; tail 285- 
320 mm.; tail less forked, depth of fork 
only about half as great ; all the feathers, 
including central pair, barred. 
+*248. Milvus migrans migrans (Bodd.), Tabl. Pl. 
Enl., p. 28 (1783). [ex. Daub., pl. 472 
Buffon, etc., type loc. France, apud Hart.] 
Black Kite. 
Wing ¢ 430-440, 2 460-475; tail ¢ 260, 
Q 270 mm.; above dark brown, much 
paler and greyer on head and hind neck and 
throat, which are much streaked with dark 
ibe 
Europe, 
breeding from 
S. Sweden, S. to 
Spain, also 
Marocco, Algeria 
Tunisia, 
Asia Minor, 
Canary Is. ; 
in Brit. Is. 
confined now to 
Wales. 
Cape Verd Is. 
(resident). 
E.. Cm: 
Europe, N. to 
Finland, S. 
to Mediter- 
ranean and 
N.W. Africa ; 
Asia Minor, 
Persia, C. Asia ; 
cas. Brit. Is. 
