There are one or two other Raptores we may just allude to here as dwellers on or fairly regular visitors to the moorlands.
Young raptores eject their semi-fluid excreta over the edge of the nursery; thus the nest is kept clean, but the droppings on the ground betray its presence to all the world.
It is tempting to formulate the theory that the raptores are migratory or the reverse according or not as they prey on birds of passage, and that the former migrate merely in order to follow their quarry.
Nor do the vultures, but a large proportion of the diurnal raptoresleaves the plains of India in the spring.
The merlins come only into the Punjab, but most of the otherraptores spread over the whole of India.
Now, the buzzard is a weakling among the raptores and all the other birds of prey despise it.
The Raptores enjoy a greater amount of public notoriety than almost any other birds, although they are of little or no service to us, and possess infinitely fewer claims to our interest than a multitude of other winged creatures.
The Raptores present none of the grace and charming prattle of other races of birds.
Their flight is medium, being neither so powerful as that of the Raptores nor so light as that of the Passerines.
The Raptores have the sense of hearing strongly developed, owing to the large cavities existing in their skulls, which communicate with the internal ear, and thus increase the capacity of this organ.
The Raptores are met with over the whole surface of the globe; the larger species inhabit lofty mountains, or seek a hiding-place in the face of inaccessible and solitary cliffs.
Next to the warblers, the raptores are the most difficult birds to distinguish one from the other.
Undoubtedly passerine in structure, shrikes are as indubitably raptores by nature.
Among these vernal arrivals come certain raptores in countless numbers--all those which are dependent on reptile and insect food.
Wild geese, for example, many of the duck-tribe, and nearly all the larger raptores far exceed them in incessant vigilance and downright astuteness.
At Burguete, between April 17th and 21st, of raptores observed, with the exception of occasional kites, the buzzard was the commonest hawk, and already had eggs.
It is corroborative of the predominance of reptiles and insects in their diet, that so many of the raptores leave Spain almost entirely in winter.
A few days afterwards we had a similar experience with another, which we stalked, sitting amongst some rough hummocky ridges: it seems all but impossible to kill these hugeraptores outright.
Hard and impervious to shot as I well knew these great raptores to be, I was hardly prepared to see him rise again, and could not have believed what followed.
The curious diversity of character displayed by the various raptoreswhen captured, deserves a word of notice.
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