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	Kite, Birds, Kite, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They are distinguished by their graceful, gliding flight and occur most commonly near water or wetlands.
		Kites are classified in three subfamilies: Elaninae, or the white-tailed kites; Perninae, or the fork-tailed kites (and honey buzzards); and Milvinae, or the true kites.
		The swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus, found from the southeastern United States and the West Indies to northern Argentina, is slim, fl above, and white below and has a white head and a long, deeply forked tail.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=55 (156 words)

	Kite,dictionary definition of Kite,Meaning of Kite,Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kite,dictionary definition of Kite,Meaning of Kite,Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known.
		Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known.
		They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
	www.dictionary-search.com /K/Kite.htm (162 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Singing Kites of Kelantan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joseph Needham, author of the multi-volume Science and Civilization in China, speculated that kites were first flown in China nearly 2000 years ago.
		In Mandarin, they are called mu yuan, which literally means "wooden kite." Yuan is Mandarin for the small, graceful hawks of the Milvinae subfamily, which in English are called "kites." However, the Malay word for the wooden, crafted kite is wau, and it is unrelated to the Mandarin.
		One popular suggestion for its origin is that it comes from the Arabic letter و, pronounced "wow," which when written in a mirror-image pair approximates the bird-like shape of a traditional Malay kite:
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199905/the.singing.kites.of.kelantan.htm (2009 words)

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		Red Kites have been seen from a nearby lake.
		The subfamily Milvinae has only two representatives in Europe.
		One is the Red Kite, Milvus milvus which occurs in Europe, northwest Africa and Asia Minor.
	www.koolhouse.com /redkite.htm (158 words)

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