BLACK KITE. K>^ 



tract as sudden a crowd as any other unexpected 

 phenomenon, and would doubtless be recorded in 

 t|ie public prints as an event of singular curiqsity. 



Var? 



RUSSIAN KITE. 



Length twenty-one inches and a half: colour 

 pale brown, with bright phesnut head and throat : 

 bill lead-colour, cere green ; legs yellow; tail fork- 

 ed. Described in the Petersburg Transactions, 

 and said to be often found at Tanain near Tscbercask, 



BLACK KITEt 



FalcQ ater. F, cera pedibusque Jlavis, corpore supra fosco-nigr0, 

 capite et suhtus albidiore, caudaforficata. Lath. ind. orn. 



Blackish- brown Kite^ with yellow cere and legs, head and 

 under parts whitish, and forked tail. 



Falco ater. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel, 



Black Kite. Lath, syn. 



Smaller than the Common Kite, and of a dark 

 blackish brown colour above, with the head, breast, 

 and under parts whitish: bill, cere, and legs like 

 tliose of th^ Common Kite. Native of Germany. 



