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reoccupy tlieir old nests^ adding a little every year. Three or four 

 years ago Kites and Buzzards were very numerous here, as Mr. Edge 

 had led me to expect. This year we only saw one Kite ; but we saw 

 it on two successive days. Its mate may have been sitting ; and a 

 nest, which we found near where we saw it, was believed to have been 

 rebuilt this year. Later in the season I was informed that there had 

 been no eggs in it; and in 1852 the keeper wrote to me that he was 

 sorry to say one of the Kites had been trapped. 



^ 418. r^JO.— Sutherlandshire, 1851. 



Sent to me by a keeper from Assynt. The Kite is unknown in 

 his district, and, I believe, almost so in the county. 



§ 419. Two. — " Clermont-Perrand," France. From M. Parzu- 

 daki's Collection, 1856. 



% 420. r/ir^e.— Lincolnshire, 6 May, 1856. From Mr. G. 

 Adrian. 



[These eggs, with those in the next section, were received by me, unblown, 

 from a correspondent of Mr. WoUey's before mentioned (§ 294). He is, I 

 believe, a most respectable man, and I have no reason to doubt his account of 

 of them.] 



S 421. 1'/^ree.— Lincolnshire, 12 May, 1856. From Mr. G. 

 Adrian. 



[As the last.] 



[§ 422. One. — " Cumberland." From Mr. Robert Reynolds, 



1846.] 



\S 423. l^wo.— Holland, 1851. 



Sent to me direct from a Dutch correspondent.] 



[§ 424. Three.— YxQm Dr. R. T. Frere's Collection, 1852.] 



