CHAPTER III. 



THE KITES, BUZZARDS AND HARRIERS. 



BY an easy and natural ascent we pass from the 

 Vultures to the Kite. This bird also prefers to he 

 saved the trouble of catching its prey, but it has not 

 fallen so far from the freebooting traditions of its 



Harriers 



stock as to relish the idea of sitting down upon a 

 defunct cow for its meals. It turns its attention 

 therefore to such corpses as may be carried away and 

 consumed in private, to Avit, rats, mice, small birds 

 and even fishes. To find these it must sail at a 

 lower level than the vulture, and it has no equal at 



