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authors. In the first quarter of the present century 

 the Earl of Orford and Colonel Thornton, with the 

 members of the Falconers' Club, used to range for 

 Kite near Elveden Gap and Eriswell in Suffolk, and 

 over Thetford Warren. In Dr. Heysham's time 

 (1796) the Kite used to breed in the woods near 

 Armathwaite, and from its gliding flight was known 

 in Cumberland as the glead, from the Anglo-Saxon 

 glidan, to glide (Macpherson, " Fauna of Lakeland," 

 1892). It is not known that any Kite has been 

 killed in that district during the last thirty-five 

 years. In Yorkshire, in Edlington Wood two were 

 taken from the nest by Hugh Reid of Doncaster 

 about 1824 ; also in Murton Wood near Hawnby, 

 where birds were procured (Clarke, ** Yorkshire 

 Vertebrates," p. 45). In Lincolnshire, Bullington 

 Wood, near Wragby, eggs were taken in the spring 

 of 1870 (Cordeaux). Charnwood Forest, Leicester- 

 shire ("Annals of Sporting," 1824, p. 308); Monks 

 Wood and Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire, until 

 1844 (Wolley). About Alconbury Hill between 

 1824 and 1829 Kites were quite common (Birch 

 Reynardson, "Reminiscences," 1875, p. 74). In 

 Worcestershire at Alfrick, near Great Malvern till 

 1850 (Jabez Allies). Kites used to nest in Tolvern 

 W^ood, Cornwall (Bullmore) ; in North Devon (Lord 

 Lilford) ; in Brampton Brian Park, Herefordshire 

 (Armitage ^) ; and in 1834 about Newport, Mon- 

 mouthshire (Conway)." Two young Kites were 



1 Trans. Woolhope Nat. Field-Chih, 1869. 

 - Mag. Nat. Hist, 1834, vii. p. 334. 



