KITE 1 5 



" woodlander," and invariably nests in a tree. In 

 1844, according to the late Dr. J. R. Kinahan, a 

 Goshawk was killed at Kilrudden, Co. Wicklow, 

 and another in 1846 in Co. Longford (Watters, 

 "Birds of Ireland," 1853, p. 8). An adult female 

 Goshawk shot in the Galtee Mountains, Tipperary, 

 Jan. 17, 1870, as recorded by Sir Victor Brooke 

 {Land and Water, March 5, 1870), proved to be 

 the American Astur atricapillus. (See Part II.) 

 A young male, however, of Astur palumbarius was 

 seen in Ballymanas Wood, Co. Wicklow {ZooL, 1870, 

 p. 2283). Low was doubtless mistaken in asserting 

 in his "Fauna Orcadensis " that the Goshawk fre- 

 quents Orkney ; his reference to sea-cliffs points to 

 the Peregrine. Edmonston thought that it nested in 

 Shetland {Zool, 1844, p. 459), but Saxby ("Birds of 

 Shetland ") considers him to have been mistaken, 

 although he himself had seen a Goshawk there in 

 April 1859 in the rabbit warren on Balta Island, 

 and one was shot in Unst during the winter of 

 1860 (Evans and Buckley, "Fauna of Shetland," 

 1899, p. 117). 



KITE. Milvus regalis, Roux. PI. 3, figs. 6, 6<x. Length, 

 24 in. ; wing, 20 in. ; tarsus, 2 in. 



Formerly common over all the open heaths and 

 waste lands, and much esteemed by falconers for 

 the royal flights which it afforded when pursued 

 by trained gerfalcons. Hence the name regalis, 

 bestowed on it by Roux in 1825, and adopted by 

 Macgillivray, Gray, Gould, and many Continental 



