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31st the author and his companions went from Aberystwyth to the 

 Devil's Bridge. On the way they saw " a moor-buzzard [Marsh- 

 Harrier] perched on a bush in the middle of a boggy field ; it is a 

 very voracious and destructive bird, and distinguished from the rest of 

 the genus by its long slender legs." Midway down the glen of the 

 Rhydiol " we saw several 



' Kites that swim sublime, 

 In still repeated circles screaming loud,' 



skirting, with an easy flight, the sides of the thickets in search of prey, 

 or floating with almost motionless wings along the windings of the vale." 

 Later, on a crag immediately above the union of the torrents of the 

 Bhydiol and Funach [Mynach] , they saw several Kites perched. The 

 Kite was such a well-known bird in those days that there is no reason to 

 suppose that the author, to some extent a trained naturalist, mistook 

 Buzzards for Kites, although he never mentions the former. Indeed, 

 the Kite was probably the commoner bird in this locality. On Snowdon 

 Aikin saw three King- Ouzels amid the clouds on the summit, and the 

 fact that he knew and recognized this bird makes one regret the more 

 the paucity of his bird-notes. He writes that the Eagle was an 

 occasional visitant to the loftiest crags, speaking apparently from 

 hearsay, although he seems to have been there in the previous year 

 also. On the Orme's Head multitudes of Gulls, Corvorants (sic), 

 Bavens, and Bock-Pigeons are said to have taken up their abode, as 

 well as the Peregrine Falcon. The abundance of the Kite and the 

 mention of the Marsh-Harrier are the only points of especial interest 

 in these few notes. — 0. V. Aplin (Bloxham). 



