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it has been called Bine Hawk and Dove Hawk ; in figure 
it is more slender and airy than the other raptors, and it 
has a singularly buoyant and graceful flight, not unlike that 
of a gull, as it beats over the ground in quest of prey, often 
riding so low as almost to touch the surface. 
That this bird is now wholly extinct in Great Britain it 
would scarcely be safe to affirm ; one can only say, that, 
like the preceding species (ruff and reeve), it is practically 
extinct. Mr. Howard Saunders, in his Manual of British 
Birds, writes : “ Of late years its numbers have been so far 
thinned by game-preservers that it is now only to be found 
