216 BIRDS OF THE HtfMBER DISTRICT. 



ried down from the city. About this period, requiring 

 a specimen, he one day took his gun and a young tame 

 rabbit that had recently died, and went down to a 

 hollow pollard willow, which grew on the bank of 

 the Witham. The rabbit was opened to show the 

 flesh ; and then, securing it by a string, he let it float 

 out into the middle of the stream. Concealing him- 

 self in the hollow tree, he kept a sharp look-out down 

 the river in the direction of the great woodlands where 

 the Kites nested ; and he had not to wait long ; for 

 presently, at an immense distance, he descried one of 

 these noble birds slowly sailing and gyrating on 

 almost motionless wing up the stream towards his 

 hiding-place, all the time, too, intently scanning the 

 water for any floating object. Arriving at last over 

 the rabbit, it remained for one moment quite station- 

 ary, and then dashed downwards, at the same instant 

 falling dead with expanded wings on the water. Thus, 

 by gun and trap, the last Lincolnshire Kites passed 

 away. 



Mr. Roberts, in his Scarborough list, mentions four 

 examples of the Kite preserved by himself, the last 

 in July 1864. 



PERNIS APIVORUS. Honey-Buzzard. 

 (Page 9.) 



One, a female, was killed at Flamborough on the 

 2nd of June, 1855. The stomach was full of frogs 

 and slugs. 



