See, there's a brace of them now!" continued Karl, pointing to two birds that were circling in the air, some twenty yards overhead.

"`Churk' falcons they are called.

They are the largest of the Himalayan hawks.

Are these your birds, brother ?" "A couple of kites, are they not ?" interrogated Caspar, turning his eyes upward, and regarding the two winged creatures circling above, and quartering the air as if in search of prey.
"Yes," answered the naturalist, "they are of that species; and, correctly described, of the same genus as the eagles.

You don't mean them, I suppose ?" "No--not exactly," replied Caspar, in a drawling tone, and smiling significantly as he spoke; "but if they be _kites_--Ho! what now ?" exclaimed the speaker, his train of thought, as well as speech, suddenly interrupted by a movement on the part of the falcons.