Brahminy kite

Brahminy kite
/brah"meuh nee/
a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
[1880-85; Brahminy, deriv. of BRAHMIN, by analogy to such words as BENGALI]

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