. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . u. c^ «X) KITE 17 taken in Eadnor Forest in 1868 [Trans. WoolhopeNat. Field-Club, 1869, and Zool, 1871, p. 2519).These birds were common there until the neighbour-ing warren was destroyed. In 1887 a nest wasdiscovered in Breconshire by Capt. Swainson. Itwas built in a nearly branchless oak about forty-fivefeet from the ground, and contained three youngbirds about ten days old. In 1891 and 1892 Kiteswere nesting in that count
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . u. c^ «X) KITE 17 taken in Eadnor Forest in 1868 [Trans. WoolhopeNat. Field-Club, 1869, and Zool, 1871, p. 2519).These birds were common there until the neighbour-ing warren was destroyed. In 1887 a nest wasdiscovered in Breconshire by Capt. Swainson. Itwas built in a nearly branchless oak about forty-fivefeet from the ground, and contained three youngbirds about ten days old. In 1891 and 1892 Kiteswere nesting in that county. In 1893 two pairs anda single bird were found in Cardiganshire ; the eggsof one pair were taken on April 25, and my infor-mant, Dr. Salter of Aberystwith, saw the nest of asecond pair on May 23, from which the eggs hadbeen taken a few days previously {Zool., 1893, , 355). In 1895 a pair nested not far fromShrewsbury (Marchant and Watkins, p. 76). Seemy article on The Disappearance of the Kite inThe Field, Dec. 11, 1897. In Scotland, where this bird was once common,it is now rarely seen. It used formerly to breed inStirlingshire, Ayrshire, and the Isle of Arr
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