CHAPTER VII 
How to tell Birds on the Wing 
(continued) 
“The seamew’s lonely laughter 
Flits down the flowing wave ; 
The green scarts follow after 
The surge where cross-tides rave.” 
Fiona MACLEOD. 
Falcons—Golden eagle—Harriers and sparrow-hawk—-The heron—The 
cormorant, shag, and gannet—The petrels—Guillemots, razor-bills, and puffins— 
The ducks—The great-crested grebe and dabchick—The pigeons—The “ plover 
tribe ’’—The gulls and terns—The game-birds. 
UR native birds of prey, the owls and hawks, have 
been so harassed by gamekeepers that many species 
are now exterminated, while others are but rarely seen. 
Some, however, in favoured localities still remain to us. At 
one time the owls and hawks were believed to be nearly 
related: they were distinguished as the ‘‘ Nocturnal” and 
“Diurnal” birds of prey. We now know that they are not 
in the remotest degree related. The owls, indeed, are closely 
related to the nightjars. They have been already discussed 
here. The hawk tribe must now have their turn. 
The one most commonly seen to-day is the kestrel, which 
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