CHAPTER VIII 



SOME ROUGH NOTES 



MANY people imagine that the once common Red 

 Kite is quite extinct, but such, however, is not the 

 case, as will have been seen from the foregoing pages, 

 though we fear that his days are numbered as far 

 as the British Isles are concerned. But what else 

 can be expected when we say that we know for a 

 fact of one dealer who finds no difficulty in getting 

 seven guineas for an egg of this species taken in the 

 British Isles? 



The so-called " Common Buzzard " as yet decidedly 

 holds his own in certain parts of the Principality, and 

 will, we think, continue to exist, in spite of collectors, 

 as long as the birds themselves are not shot or 

 trapped. The Raven also continues, but is a scarcer 

 bird than the Buzzard even, as far as the inland 

 localities are concerned. This is somewhat curious ; 

 as we think that he is less persecuted than the latter, 

 the chief reason being that he chooses a more 

 inaccessible spot for his eyrie, and it requires a very 

 keen man indeed to carry much rope tackle on a 

 twenty-mile tramp. 



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