. A dictionary of birds . a beautiful little bird, the Black-winged Kite of Englishauthors, that comes to the south of Europe from Africa, and hasseveral congeners—E. axillaris and E. scriptus of Australia beingmost worthy of notice. An extreme development of this form isfound in the African Nauclerus ?iocouri, as well as in Elanoides furcatus,the Swallow-tailed Kite, a widely-ranging bird in America, andremarkable for its length of wing and tail, which gives it a marvel-lous power of flight, and serves to explain the unquestionable factof its having twice appeared in Great Britain. To Elanus
. A dictionary of birds . a beautiful little bird, the Black-winged Kite of Englishauthors, that comes to the south of Europe from Africa, and hasseveral congeners—E. axillaris and E. scriptus of Australia beingmost worthy of notice. An extreme development of this form isfound in the African Nauclerus ?iocouri, as well as in Elanoides furcatus,the Swallow-tailed Kite, a widely-ranging bird in America, andremarkable for its length of wing and tail, which gives it a marvel-lous power of flight, and serves to explain the unquestionable factof its having twice appeared in Great Britain. To Elanus alsoIdinia, another American form, is allied, though perhaps mere 1 Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 322) calls it M. korschun ; but thefigure of S. G. Gmelins Accipikr korschuv, whence the name is taken, unquestion-ably represents the Moor-Buzzaed, Circus seruginosus. 492 KITTIWAKE remotely, and it is represented by /. mississippiensls, the MississippiKite, which is by some considered to be but the northern race of.
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