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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Warnford, land worth lOOs. was held by the service of 
providing a sparrow-hawk " to be paid to our lord the 
king yearly, on the feast of St. Michael, at the Exchequer." 
Genus— JI/^7w/j. 
134t Milvus ictinus. Kite. 
An accidental visitor, formerly resident. 
This species, which was evidently at one time plentiful, 
has now completely disappeared as a resident from the 
county, and is of the rarest occurrence. 
Evidence of its former presence still remains in the 
names of places — as " Kitelands " — a copse near Michel- 
dever Station ; " Kitehill " — near Upton Grey, etc. 
White has a note in his MS. Journal : — " April 17th, 
1768, fork-tailed kite lays three eggs." 
Gilpin ^ mentions the kite as " one of the most 
harmonious appendages of the forests," and remarks " we 
seldom see more than two of this species together — the 
male and the female. They seem to divide the Forest into 
provinces ; each bird hath his own, and, with more than 
princely caution, avoids his neighbours." This is quite 
characteristic of the kite, or we might assume, as he does 
not mention the buzzard, that he had confused the two 
species. 
Mr. Harting has kindly informed us that Mr. E. Fitton 
had kites' eggs from the New Forest in 1850, one of which 
is in Professor Newton's collection at Cambridge. 
In the Hart collection is a bird procured at Stanpit 
Marsh, near Christchurch, in 185 1. 
* "Forest Scenery." 1834. 
