ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIDiE. 
AQUILIN/E. 
Genus MILYUS. 
Bill longer and with the tip more hooked than in Haliastur ; festoon less prominent, the cere 
more advanced at the sides. Nostrils moderately large, oval, and oblique. Wings very long and 
pointed ; the 3rd and 4th quills the longest, and reaching nearly to the tip of the tail. Tail long 
and forked. Tarsus short, the front and sides plumed considerably below the knee, the rest 
covered in front with transverse scutse and behind with hexagonal scales, does longei than in 
Haliastur. Claws similar. 
MILYUS GOVINDA. 
(THE INDIAN PARIAII-KITE.) 
Milvus govinda, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 81 ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 115 (1852) ; Layard, 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 103; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Milvi, p. 2 (1862); Gould, 
B. of Asia, part iv. ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 104 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 248 ; Ilume, 
Rough Notes, ii. p. 320 (1870) ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 414 ; Hume, Nests and 
Eggs, p. 52 (1873); Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 325; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 10; Hume, 
Str. Eeath. 1875, p. 229, footnote. 
llaliaetus lineatus, Gray & Ilardw. 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 18 (\oung). 
Milvus cheela, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. /I (1839). 
Milvus ater, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 31 (1849). 
Common Kite, Black Kite, Jaffna Europeans ; The Cheela Kite, Kelaart’s Prodromus. 
Chil, Hind. ; Malta Gedda, Tel. ; Faria Prdndu (ajrnd Jerdon). 
Bajaliya, Sinhalese ; Kalu-Prandu, Paria Prdndu, Tam. in Ceylon. 
Adult female. Length to front of cere 22-0 to 22-5 inches ; eulmen from cere l - 2 ; wing 1 7 -5 to 18'Oj tail 1O0 to 1T0 ; 
tarsus 2-0 to 2-2 ; middle toe 1'5, its claw (straight) 0'7 ; height of bill at cere 0-5 ; expanse 55 5 (of an example 
with a wing of 1S'0). 
Adult male. Length to front of cere 21-0 to 22-0 inches ; wing 1G-0 to 17 '3 ; tarsus 2'0 to 2-2. 
Tris light hazel-brown, sometimes tawnv, with brown radii and mottlings between them ; cere pale greenish, dusky 
above ; bill blackish, gape and base of under mandible bluish ; legs and feet whitish green, greenish yellow, or 
pale yellowish ; claws black. 
Head and hind neck brownish tawny, the feathers slightly pale-edged, and each with a fine dark shaft-stripe ; on the 
hind neck the stripes expand slightly, and the ground-colour darkens into the glossy wood-brown of the back, 
rump, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; upper tail-coverts paler than the back, and the margins of the feathers 
of the foregoing parts slightly paler than the rest, those of the least coverts tawny ; median wing-coverts lighter 
than the rest, the webs paling off from the shaft to fulvescent greyish at the edges ; primary-coverts, secondaries, 
and shorter primaries dark brown, the latter somewhat paler on the outer webs ; longer primaries blackish brown, 
the inner webs paling from the notch to the base, and the colour broken up with white interspaces and mottlings : 
inner secondaries and adjacent tertials crossed with narrow' blackish-brown bars, the interspaces being ashen, 
paling to white on the shorter and innermost tertials ; tail ashen brown, with a tawny hue near the shafts of the 
feathers, and the laterals paling to whitish at the bases of the inner w'ebs, the whole crossed with narrow bars of 
