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Definition of Milvus migrans
1. Noun. Dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milvus Migrans
Literary usage of Milvus migrans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... larger and darker blotches, which give the eggs a very handsome appearance.
Axis, 2-1-2'35 inches; diam., 17-175. II. THE BLACK KITE. Milvus migrans. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"So DV, Deut., xiv, 13, translates ru'ah, possibly substituted by a scribe's error
for dä'ah, and very likely meaning the black kite (milvus migrans). ..."
3. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart (1888)
"There are two common species of kite in Palestine, the kite or red kite (Milvus
ictinus), and the black kite (Milvus migrans), and two rarer sorts, ..."
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