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Cymindin.®, or True Kites. 
If we remove Milvus (the common Kite of 
British authors) from that section with which it 
has hitherto been placed, receiving it as the 
Fissirostral form among the Harriers and Buz- 
zards, then the title of “ Milvinte” would be very 
inappropriate for our present sub-family, and the 
British members of it will be reduced to only one 
species. We do think that it has been errone- 
ously placed here, and we have, for the present, 
adopted Mr Swainson’s name of Cymindina, 
leaving it, however, for future observation to 
determine whether or not the birds which pre- 
sently compose the genus Cymindis are typical of 
this sub-family. 
One species, the Swallow-tailed Hawk of 
Wilson, occurring very rarely within the British 
boundaries, is the only bird which gives our 
Fauna any claim to boast of this graceful form. 
There is some confusion in the generic name 
which should be applied to this bird, and we are 
not sure that we can now clear it up. Savigny 
appears to have given “ Elanus” to the E. mela- 
nopterus as a distinct form, but not including in 
it that of our British representative, which widely 
differs ; while the title of Nauclerus was given by 
