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accomplished on the wing. I have also seen the Chanwa pursue 
cuckoos and sparrows with uncommon energy, but 1 never wit- 
nessed it strike a bird in the air. The Chanwa doubtless can, 
and sometimes does, seize its feathered prey on the wing." — 
(Madr. Journ. L. S. VI. p. 77.) 
Genus Milvus, Cuv., An. Comp. 1. Tab, Sec. CI. des Ois. 
(1799). 
Htdeoictinia, Kaup, Class, der Sceug. und Voeg. p. 115 
(1844). 
36. MIL VUS NIGER, Briss. 
Milvus niger, Briss., Orn. I. p. 413. G. B. Gray, Gen. of 
Birds, I. p. 24 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 43. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 21. 
Falco ater, Gmel, S. JST. L. I. p. 262. 
Milvus fuscus, Brehm., Voeg. Deutsch. \. p. 53, t. 4,/! 1. 
The Black Kite. 
TsHELVET, Abyssinia, Both. 
A. b. c. Abyssinia. From Sir W. Harris's Collection. 
" Very common about Ankober and Angollallah, cleaning the 
streets and compounds in company with the crows." — (Dr. Eoth'a 
MS. Eeport.) 
37. MILVUS GOVINDA, SyJces. 
MHvus' govinda, Syhes, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 81. G. B. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, III. App. p. 2 ; Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. p. 43. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 21. Gould, 
Birds of Asia, t. 52. 
Milvus melanotis, Temm. et Schl., Faun. Jap. Aves, t. 5, 
5 h. 
Milvus cheele, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 71. 
Milvus indicus v. cheela, Sodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. 
(1844), p. 81. 
Haliaetus Hneatus, G. Sf H., III. Ind. Zool. I. t. 18. 
Milvus ater, apud Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 31. 
Falco cheela of modern authors, nec. Lath. 
The Common or Pariah Kite, Jerd. 
