PLATE XLVII. 



FALCO MILVUS. 

 KITE. 



ACCIPITRES. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong. Hooked. An angle in 

 each margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females 

 larger, and more beautiful than the males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill much arched. A cere or membrane at the bafe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Cere and irides yellow. Head hoary white with dafhes of black. 

 Body ferruginous. Tail forked. Legs yellow. 



Falco Milvus; Cera flava, cauda forficata, corpore ferruginep, 

 capite albidiore. — Fn. $v. 59, Linn* $][/?• Nat* 

 X. 89. 10. edit, 10. 



Milvus, Rail Syji.p.t']. N* -4. 6. 



Gefn, av. 609. 

 Kite, or Glead. Will, orn, p. 74. /. 6. 



M Kit?. 



