i6 7 



dashing Hawk " improved " off the face of the 

 country, and would say in the words of Mr. 

 Jorrocks, "Be to his virtues ever kind; be to his 

 faults a leetle blind." 



The specimens in the case were obtained on 

 the hills above the Lochs of Koro in the north-west 

 of Perthshire in June, 1867. 



The birds were so wary and the position of 

 the nest so exposed in the bare face of a precipice 

 of at least one hundred feet in height that it was 

 impossible to get a shot at either of them ; so re- 

 moving three of the young I stumped the remaining 

 one down and set a couple of traps on each side 

 of it. 



The female was taken the same evening, but 

 it was three days before the male bird was seen ; 

 when, on examining the traps early in the morning, 

 we found an unfledged duckling in the first trap 

 and the Falcon in the second. He had evidently 

 sprung the first trap with the prey he had been 

 bringing and then in his vain attempt to drag the 

 duckling, trap and all, to the young one had been 

 himself caught in the second. 



During the three days between the capture of 

 the parents, we had kept the young Hawk alive 

 by feeding it with trout fresh caught from the Loch 

 at the foot of the hill, on which it seemed to thrive 

 well. 



See "Eough Notes," Vol. I., Plate 12. 



KITE. 

 Case 241. 



Though formerly of common occurrence all 

 over the country there are now but few counties 

 in which the Kite can be reckoned as a resident. 

 I have noticed that the young birds of this species 

 are usually supplied with a great variety of food ; 

 in nests I have examined there have been at 

 different times several young rabbits and hares, a 



