Order FALCONIFORMES. Family AQUILIDM. 
No. 306. 
ELANUS NOTATUS. 
BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE. 
(Plate 249).* 
Elahus notatus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 1, Apl. 1838 : New South 
Wales. 
Flantts melanopterus (not Daudin) Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 185, 1827 (N.S.W.). 
Elanus notatvs Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 1, 1838 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 141, Dec. 1838 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. L, 
p. 146, 1913. 
Elanus axillaris Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, 1843 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 23, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 53, 1865; Higgles, 
Omith Austr., pt. m., 1866 (Q.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 338, 
1874 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 579 (Q.) ; id.. Cat. Austr. Accip., 
p. 41, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Gurney, Ibis 1879, 
p. 333 ; id., List Dium. Birds Prey, p. 84, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 
1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 14, 1890 ; id., ih., no. 4, p. 45, 1898 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 2, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 27, 1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XIL, p. 208, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; Batey, Emu, 
Vol. VII., p. 3, 1907 (Viet.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p, 41, 1908 ; Howe, 
Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 136, 1909 (Viet.) ; Batey, ih., Vol. IX., p. 241, 1910 (Viet.) ; 
Mathews, ih., p. 239, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; id., ih., Vol. X., p. 108, 1910 (N.^^-A.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IH., p. 249, 1912 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. XIL, 
p. 255, 1913 (N.T.) ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 109, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 151, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 42, 1914 (N.T.) ; S. A. 
White, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 425, 1914 (Central). 
Elanus axillaris axillaris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 250, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 109, 1913. 
Elanus axillaris parryi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 251, 1912 ; Parry’s Creek, 
North-west Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 109, 1913. 
Distribution. Australia {not Tasmania). 
* The Plate is lettered Elanus axillaris. 
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