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The Scripture Alphabet of Animals

The Kite

The kite is mentioned but once or twice in the Bible. In Leviticus, 11 : 13,14, it is named amongthe birds which the Israelites were not allowed to use for food. "And these are they which yeshall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination; theeagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, and the vulture, and the kite after its kind." These areall birds of prey, that is, they live by destroying other animals, and some of them are very fierceand cruel; I suppose this is one reason why they were not to be eaten.

The kite is a large bird, more than two feet long; and when its wings are spread it would take astring five feet and a half long to stretch from the tip of one across to the other. It does not flyvery rapidly, but its motion in the air is very graceful and beautiful. On this account it hassometimes been called the Gled, or the gliding bird.

The kite is very much dreaded and disliked by those who have ducks and chickens, because itcarries them off for food. It also eats frogs and moles: it is said that more than twenty of thelatter have been found in one Kite's nest. It is a cowardly bird, and does not attack any animalthat is strong enough to defend itself. Its nest is usually built between the forked branches ofsome tall tree in the thickest part of the forest; and if you could look into one of them in thespring, you would probably see three eggs, almost white, but a little tinged with blue.

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