. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . web cut out. The secondary quills thirteen, long, broad,rounded, with a minute tip. Tail very long, broad, forked oremarginate, of twelve broad feathers. The genus Milvus, of which the species are not numerous,is very intimately allied to Pernis, from which it is distin-guished by the still more elongated wings and tail, the bristlynature of th
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . web cut out. The secondary quills thirteen, long, broad,rounded, with a minute tip. Tail very long, broad, forked oremarginate, of twelve broad feathers. The genus Milvus, of which the species are not numerous,is very intimately allied to Pernis, from which it is distin-guished by the still more elongated wings and tail, the bristlynature of the covering of the loral space, and the more curvedclaws. It approximates to the genus Elanus, which has thewings and tail extremely elongated, and differs further in hav-ing the tarsi destitute of scutella. The Kites are remarkablefor their gliding and buoyant flight. They prey on birds,small quadrupeds, reptiles, insects, sometimes fishes, and occa-sionally eat the flesh of dead animals. Only one species occursin Britain, in some districts of which it is still rather plen-tiful. 265 MILVUS REGALIS. THE RED KITE. COMMON KITE. GLED, GLEAD, GLADE. RED GLED, SALMON-TAILED GLED,FORK-TAILED GLED. PUTTOCK. CROTCHET-TAILED PUTTOCK. AN CLAMHAN Falco Milvus. Linn. Syst. Nat. T. 126. Falco Milvus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 20. Old, Falco austriacus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 21, Young. Kite. Mont. Orn. Diet, Milan Royal. Falco Milvus. Temm. Man. dOrn. I, 59, Kite or Glead. Milvus vulgaris. Selb. lUustr. I. 74. Common Kite. Milvus Ictinus. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 86. Male uith the upper parts reddish-hroicn, marTced icith longi-tudinal hlackish-brown streaks, the lower parts light broicnishred^ with narrower dusky streaks. Female with the head andupper part of the neck gregish-ichite, streaked with dusky, theother parts nearly as in the male. Young of a duller broicnish-red, with the central dark markings of the feathers deeply emarginate. 266 MILVUS REGALIS. Male.—The Kite is dis
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