Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Hawks. Of the allied species, Milvus(egypticus, we read in the Rev. H. B. Tristrams Great Sahara :— Sociable, fearless, and inquisi-tive, it readily approaches man, and hangs over theArab camp, waiting for offal, and counting thepoultry stock. Its nest, the marine-storeshop ofthe desert, is decorated with whatever scrap ofbumouses and coloured rags can be collected; andto theso are added on every surrouuding branch thecast-off coats of serpents, large scraps of thin bark,and perhaps
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Hawks. Of the allied species, Milvus(egypticus, we read in the Rev. H. B. Tristrams Great Sahara :— Sociable, fearless, and inquisi-tive, it readily approaches man, and hangs over theArab camp, waiting for offal, and counting thepoultry stock. Its nest, the marine-storeshop ofthe desert, is decorated with whatever scrap ofbumouses and coloured rags can be collected; andto theso are added on every surrouuding branch thecast-off coats of serpents, large scraps of thin bark,and perhaps a bustards wing. sive circles, which were performed by the almostimperceptible motion of his wings, and guided byhis forked and elongated tail. He occasionallysoared to a great height. When with outstretchedwings he performed some of his majestic aerialevolutions, he has again and again delighted andastonished the inhabitants, who believed that hewas one of Joves noble birds that had come fromthe cold regions of the North to visit this our more genial clime Mr. Stevenson cannot give us many instances of. Eig. 22S. The Kite {Milvus regalis). S Macgillivray, in his History of British Birds,gives the following interesting note as supplied tohim by Mr. Weir :— In the neighbourhood of Bath-gate the Fork-tailed Kite very seldom appears,*as during the long period of twelve years I haveseen one male only. For three successive seasonshe frequented this parish, and was in the almostdaily habit of visiting the same localities, makinghis appearance at bis different haunts about thesame hour each day. Amongst partridges and otherbirds he committed great havoc. His flight waseasy and graceful, consisting of curves and cxten- * The Kite is known in many localities hy this name, andmust not be confounded with the Swallow-tailed Kite(Nuuclerus furcatus). the Kites occurrence in Norfolk, the last one, pro-bably, obtained in that county being a female, trappedat Croxton, near Thetford, in No
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