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with delightfully easy swoops was far above the 

 other three birds. Then he slanted off across 

 country, and with one or two flaps of his long 

 wings was far out of sight. This is all I have seen 

 of the kite ; but I hope at some future time to be 

 able to say more about him. I am looking forward 



ANCIENT HOME OF THE KITE 



to many happy days more to be spent in his wild 

 haunt. It is not often one has the good fortune to 

 see three such rare species as the kite, buzzard, and 

 raven, within a few yards of each other. 



The accounts I received of the persistent and 

 systematic robbery of kites' nests were about the 

 saddest things I have heard in connection with our 

 rare British breeding birds. Year after year the eggs 



