BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. Vol. X, No. 4. 



TREE NEAR A FARM IN SOUTH WALES IN THE BRANCHES OF WHICH, 

 FIFTY YEARS AGO, THIRTY KITES USED TO ROOST. 



" The Kite is another melancholy example of the effect of the 

 pitiless persecution of some of our finest birds by game-preservers, 

 and, as the species became rare, by collectors of ' British-killed ' 

 specimens and ' British-taken ' eggs." — Hudson's British Birds. 



" There are still many ' Kite's Nest Farms ' scattered about the 

 country, and it was not till towards the middle of the last 

 century that the bird began to grow really uncommon." — Collett's 

 Handbook of British Inland Birds. 



{Seepage 50.) 



