BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
[THE KITE. Milvus ictinus, Savigny. 
Of the Kite Mr. R. Service sav<^ • Tf u 
exSenoi Tf • ^ ''"^ ' it« former 
Si 1. ^^''^^•""^"y reported as seen, the fork in 
Snt fi d H -ngume observers to think they hav^ 
Mr Serlvp T f ^ '"^r^ f^'tin^te than 
WkSs" Th.. 7 Pl-^'ed this speeies in "square 
Diacj^ets. The local name " Gled " or " OIppH » ^ 
co™ty used for the Buzzard is beLed"" t havfbe:: 
once the sobriquet of the Kite ; but this is hardly proof of 
79^"^^™.t• I' '''^ Hutton and Col in 
wrws'tirenitrtg^^ 
^^'^/.^ r -^^^^ swaUow-tailed ded or 
but ha. notCtTd W-r^" 
of the Kite in IMS Sir WiUiam Jardine speaks 
SeotW^ld iX^hr^^^^^^^^^ - 
caifn'sSI"" "Thi'^r^"' f °' ''"^ds of Glen- 
' When a bov 7? ^ f """^ extinct. 
Sfat^ thTcrJZrSr i;:^ SJiv: l^f'' 
(perfect freedom \ut never atferpTed " to ^ra;:""^ 
lamb-fa:r day a shepherd's dog having stolen a^^iece of 
I l?T\ ^' T ^<"' - D^^^-aber Z8th, 1903. 
T ^cc<. 5oo(., Vol. xril., p. 580. 
% W. Laidlaw's MS. Diary and Notes 
§ Nat. La,., 1838, Vol. IX., p. 218 
