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Fig. 110.—The Swallow-tailed Kite. 
earries it off to devour it in the air, as represented in the 
figure. 
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Fig. 111.—The common Buzzard. 
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. 111, 
