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in 1843 I well recollect one of our gamekeepers 

 bringing in a fine Kite which he had shot from his 

 cottage door near Aldwincle. In the last-named and 

 following years Kites' nests were taken in Lady 

 Wood and Great Wadenhoe Wood; in the latter 

 instance by the late Mr. Norwood, of Salisbury, who 

 gave me this information, and in 1840 or 1841 two 

 young Kites were taken from a nest in a very large 



Soaring Kite. 



elm near Barnwell village, and kept for many years 

 in the rectory garden by the late Rev. J. Boultbee, 

 in whose possession I well remember seeing them, 

 and to whose daughter I am indebted for the above 

 particulars ; these birds made a nest in the garden 

 just named, and laid two eggs, one of which was 

 given to me by Mr, Boultbee. 



