MILYUS ICTINUS (Savigmj). 



(The Kite or Glead.) 



Perhaps in few other places was the Kite more abundant than in Hunting- 

 donshire. The 4th edition of Yarrell states that the famous breeding-places, 

 the woods of Alconbury Hill, were cleared about 1844 or soon after. I have 

 an egg, perhaps nearly the last ever laid, which was found in that locality. 

 A good observer writes to me concerning Whittlesea Mere, the great 

 Huntingdonshire lake, now vanished :— " I once saw there a flock of 

 Starlings, which extended for miles and completely darkened the air ; in the 

 midst of them were three Kites." Puttock, the name of this bird in 

 Shakespeare, is still applied to a manor in Eynesbury, near S. Neots, 

 Huntingdonshire, to this day known as Puttock's Hardwick. 



PERNIS APIYORUS, Linn. 



(Honey-Buzzard.) 



October 20, 1863, William Pearson, my father's keeper at Priory Hill, 

 S. Neots, shot a male. The female was also seen, but escaped. May 22, 

 1871, I saw a male bird, which had been caught in a trap the day before, 

 baited with a Moorhen's egg, and set for a Magpie. 



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