OUR 11ARER BRITISH BREEDING BIRDS. 55 



two pairs do actually succeed in bringing off their 

 young in a certain part of Wales under protection ; 

 but in spite of a rumour that the species still 

 breeds on the west side of Scotland, there remains, 

 I fear, reason to take a very gloomy view of its 

 prospects in that part of the country. 



ANCIENT HOME OF KITE. 



Curiously enough, one pair of Kites, known 

 to my brother and myself as still attempting 

 to breed in the Principality, owe their discovery 

 and ruin to the fact that their ancient stronghold 

 happens to have been the hiding-place of some 

 Elizabethan outlaw, at whose shrine numbers of 

 admirers worship every year. 



We visited the locality last spring in the com- 

 pany of our friend Dr. Salter, of Aberystwith, 

 who, whilst out one fine morning, was pointing to 

 a high mountain ridge along which the Kites loved 



