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of this country. I can just remember the days when it 

 was still tolerably common." ^ 



"January J3//1, 1893. 

 "I am much obliged to you for yours of nth, and 

 am very glad to have your experience about the kites 

 remaining in Wales through the year : this is not the 

 case in Inverness-shire." ^ 



"January ^i\ih, 1895. 

 " I do not think the kites would drive away the 

 young during the year of their birth, but it is quite 

 probable that they might object to the new building of 

 a fresh pair within the limits of their hunting district. 

 In my experience in Spain we seldom found a nest of 

 red kite within a m.ile of another of the same species. 

 The black kite, on the other hand, we often found in 

 small scattered colonies of half a dozen nests, perhaps 

 within a radius of 500 or 600 yards." ^ 



"April 25//%, 1895. 

 "Thanks very much for yours of the 2ist. I am 

 very glad that you enjoyed your visit to my beloved 

 old haunts in Glentromie and Guich so much. We used 

 to call the loch below the lodge, Loch'n Sheillach — 

 the Lake of the Willows. I grieve to hear of four stuffed 

 eagles. All our spring birds as yet arrived are pretty 



' To E. Cambridge Phillips, Esq. 

 * To the same. 

 ' To the same. 



