. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. 49 The Arabian Kite still plays the same part in Africa as was formerly taken in England by its European relative. It is a bold and familiar bird, haunting the habitations of man, and audaciously carrying off its prey, undeterred by human presence. As it will eat garbage of almost any nature, it is a valuable ally to the unclean villagers; carrying away the offal which is liberally ilung out of the houses, and scarcely pennitting it to rest on the ground before i
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SWALLOW-TAILED KITE. 49 The Arabian Kite still plays the same part in Africa as was formerly taken in England by its European relative. It is a bold and familiar bird, haunting the habitations of man, and audaciously carrying off its prey, undeterred by human presence. As it will eat garbage of almost any nature, it is a valuable ally to the unclean villagers; carrying away the offal which is liberally ilung out of the houses, and scarcely pennitting it to rest on the ground before it is seen and devoured. The bird is strictly protected on account of the services which it continually renders ; and so utterly fearless does it become through long experience of the ways of man, that it pays visits to every house in the village, in hopes of finding food of some kind. When Le VaiUant was employed in preparing his dinner at his wagons, the Kites came and boldly carried off the meat, heedless of the shots that were fired and the cries that were raised, and even returned for a second supply as soon as they had disposed of their former KITES.—J/iVi'M migrans and Mihus tegalis. The beautiful bird which is so well known under the appropriate title of the Swallow- tailed Kite, is an inhabitant of various parts of America. This species seems to be dis- tributed over a considerable tract of countiy, according to the observations of many practical ornithologists. Mr. Nuttal has the following remarks on the habitat of the Swallow-tailed Falcon. "This beautiful bird breeds and passes the summer in the wanner parts of the United States, and is also probably resident in all tropical and temperate America; emigrating into the southern as well as well as the northern hemisphere. In the former, according to Vieillot, it is found in Peru, and as far as Buenos Ayres ; and though it is extremely rare to meet with this species as far as the latitude of forty degrees,
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