 The term is preserved in the modern French common names "élanion naucler" and "naucler à queue fourchue".The name "Nauclerus" was published by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825, and used by other authors in the 19th century.Vigors' original description contained both the swallow-tailed kite ("N. furcatus", also called the Carolina kite or forked-tail hawk) and the then-recently discovered scissor-tailed kite (Riocour's kite, "N. Riocourii"), separating them from the "Elanus" of Savigny.