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safely in 1899 at Upper Chapel (the place alluded to in Mr. 

 Phillips's List of the Birds of Breconshire, Zool. 1882). I have 

 been unable to get an} 7 information for the present year (1900). 



" I am afraid that, like yourself, I must come to the con- 

 clusion that the species is doomed. What is the use of a fine 

 of £1 when the eggs and bird are worth two or three times as 

 much ? A gamekeeper once said to me, ' A dead Kite is worth 

 £2 or £3 : how can you expect a poor man to spare one ? ' " 



