I cloud restore from ios 7 to ios 8

I have an Icloud backup from ios7 iphone4 and trying to restore it to my new ios8 iphone5 using only icloud (can not use iTunes), it does not allow me to use this backup, only shows me other apple devises backups which i do not want. Help?

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