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for she will carry bones into the ayr, and let them fall down upon a 
stone, that she may break them, and so come at the marrow. 
“The sixth kind is white, and lives by flying at hares, coneys, 
hogs, whelpes, foxes, and such like: yet the eagle so loves her young, 
that she will put her self like a buckler, between her young ones and 
the arrow shot. 
“ But all the kinds of them have this property, that they wrap 
their eggs in fox or hare skins to be hatched, which they find by 
chance or else flea them themselves, and these they leave in their 
nests to come to maturity by heat of the sun. For they cannot always 
sit and stay in their nests, because their talons would grow so crooked 
that they would not be able to catch their prey.” (.History of the 
Goths , etc., jd. 196.) 
The Kite is sometimes called the glead; though in 
Kite the English translation of Deuteronomy xiv. 
13, glede and kite are mentioned separately. 
According to Belon, who wrote about the year 1560, an 
amazing number of kites used to collect in the streets of 
London for the sake of the refuse which was thrown into 
the gutters. People were forbidden to kill them, and the 
birds were so tame that they took their prey in the midst 
of the greatest crowds, after the manner of pigeons in 
our time. Their familiarity, however, was not quite so 
harmless, for they occasionally invaded the butchers’ 
stalls, and helped themselves to what they fancied. 
Gascoigne, in his Councell to Duglasse Live, has the 
following defence of the kite:— 
“ The kight can weede the worme from corne and costly seedes, 
The kight can kill the mowldiwarpe, in pleasant meads that breedes, 
Out of the stately streets the kight can dense the filth, 
As men can dense the worthlesse weedes, from fruitfull fallowed tilth; 
And onely set aside the hennes poor progenie, 
I cannot see who can accuse the kight for felonie. 
The falcon, she must feede on partridge, and on quayle, 
On pigeon, plover, ducke and drake, kearne, lapwing, teale, and raile.” 
(.English Poets , vol. ii., ed. Chalmers.) 
The puttock was another name for this bird. In the 
same poem we find:— 
