PLATE XLVIL 



Kite. Perm. Br. Zool i. 185. 53. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. I. p. 6l. N° 43. 



Le Milan royal. Behn. av. 129. 



BrlJ. orn. 1. ^. 414. N" 35. /. 33. 

 Buff. oif. 1. p. 197. /. 7.-— JV. «£ 

 422. 

 Rottier Milon. Zrarc. 326. 



Glada. Faun. Suec. fp. 57. 



Nibbio. Zinan 82. 



Glede, Puttock, Kyte Turneru 



The Kite is very common in England, and is well known in fe- 

 veral parts of the continent of Europe*; but it inhabits the more 

 northern countries only during the hottefl months of fummer. 

 Bo/man mentions it as a native of Guineat; Linnaeus alfo fays it in- 

 habits Europe, Afia, and Africa. No author has yet defcribed it as 

 a native of America. 



It breeds in woods. The neft is formed of different materials ; th» 

 outfide of flicks, the lining of rags, bits of flannel, rope, paper, &e £. 

 It lays two or three eggs, which are roundifh, and of a whitifh colour, 

 fpotted with dirty yellow. The egg of the Kite is defcribed by Mr, 

 Latham (in his Supplement to the Synopfis of Birds} from the fpe- 

 cimen formerly preferved in the Portland Mufeum; it was of abluilh 



• « The flefh is groffe. jfldnv. yet it's eaten by the poOre people 14 Genpany.** 

 Rsbt. Level!, H'ifi, Animals and Birds, 1661, 

 •f* Eofman, Voy. de Guiaee, p. a?8, 

 I Pais. Br. ZvAt, v 



white* 



