BIRDS OF PREY. 



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Fig. 110. The Swallow-tailed Kite. 



carries it off to devour it in the air, as represented in the 



225. As the Hawks may 

 be regarded as an inferior 

 kind of Falcon, so the Buz- 

 zards may be considered as 

 having a similar relation to 

 the Eagles. In their flight 

 they have neither the soar 

 and swoop of the Falcons and 

 Eagles, the arrow-like dash 

 of the Hawks, nor the wind- 

 ing sweep of the Kites ; but 

 they sail along easily and rap- 

 idly in quest of their prey, 

 which is much like that of 

 the Kites and Hawks. The 

 common Buzzard, Fig. Ill, 



Fig. 111. The common Buzzard. 



