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FALCO MILVUS. 
KITE. 
Cere yellow; tail forked; body ferrugi- 
nous ; head whitish. 
Falco Milvus, Lin. Gme. 
Le Milan Royal, Buffon. 
Kite or Glead, Will. 
Kite, Pen. Lath. Shaw, Mont. Don. 
Graves, Bew. 
PROVINCIAL. 
PUTTOCK, PORK-TAILED KITE, GLEAD. 
The specimen from which our drawing 
was made measured rather more than two 
feet in length, and in breadth five feet ; and 
weighed two pounds and a half. 
The female differs but little in plumage 
from the male, but is rather larger, being 
sometimes two feet six inches in length, and 
five feet eight inches in breadth. 
It makes its nest early in the spring, in 
the fork of some large tree; which nest is 
