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Typescript and manuscript extracts relating to red kites from J. H. Salter's natural history diaries, 1891-1941, and published notes, 1893-1904.

H. Morrey Salmon, 'A history of the kite Milnus milnus (L.) in Wales', 1971, in four parts: (I), Narrative and 1977 addenda; (II) Tabulated ecological area records by decades, 1891-1970, with maps; (III) Ecological area records; and (IV) Appendices: (i) Membership of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970, and dates of meetings, (ii) Map locations of places named, (iii) Select bibliography, and (iv) Reports of the Kite Committee, 1949-1957, and of the 'Kite Group', 1958-1970. The 1977 addenda was compiled by the author from the abstracts of kite records made by Peter Davis (A 7, below) from the papers of Dorothy Raikes (d. 1976), transferred by her trustees to the Nature Conservancy Council.
Copy no. 2 (Dup.).

Welsh kite, peregrine, raven, buzzard and merlin records extracted from the diaries of C. H. Wells, a suspected egg-collector, 1910-1911 and 1925-1955, made available by courtesy of Eric Bartlett, the Brecon bird recorder, 1979, with covering correspondence, 1978-1979.

1 envelope (0.25 cm. and 2 maps).

Records of kites in Wales, pre-1960, including lists of place names, pre-1891 records of kites, annual summaries, 1891-1959, and a copy of the RSPB annual report for 1947, including (pp. 22-34) a report by James Fisher on an anonymous 'Kite Valley' protected by Dorothy Raikes of Bwlch, co. Brec.

Original file of correspondence, mainly between the Nature Conservancy, the Forestry Commission and the RSPB, relating to the kites breeding in the Ystwyth Forest at Hafod, co. Card., including maps of nest sites, 1947-1972, the policy of "playing down" the Hafod kite population (see also E 8), forestry operations, Kite Committee voluntary wardens, the Caravan Club site at Hafod Old Mansion, 1972-1974, and the sale of the Hafod Arms Hotel, with the sporting rights over the old Hafod estate, 1980.

Original file of Kite Committee and related papers, including a copy of I. Newton, 'Reintroduction and its relation to the management of raptor populations', read to a conference in the USA, Nov. 1985.

Original file of relating to the formation of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1995-1996, and administration, including correspondence, drafts of documents, minutes of trustees' meetings, annual reports, Charity Commission publications, copies of 'Boda wennol: the newsletter of the Welsh Kite Trust'. Includes a letter to R.S. Thomas asking him to be a patron of the new trust, and his reply declining the offer, Jan. 1997.

Original file of reports of sightings and observations for 1985-1988 and related papers.

Original file of letters to Peter Davis and copy replies, including re. proposals for a monograph on kites for T. & A.D. Poyser, 1989-1994, Shire Publications, 1989, Christopher Helm, 1990-1991, and George Philip, 1991; Roger Lovegrove's kite monograph, 1990; 'New atlas of breeding birds in Britain and Ireland', 1991; and Mike Pienkowski's book on the reintroduction of the kite, 1994-1997. Also drafts of Peter Davis kite papers, including the kite chapter for G. Williams, 'BoW' [published as 'Birds in Wales'], 1993; and 'The red kite in Wales: setting the record straight' for 'British Birds', 1993; 'Kite and land use in Wales, report to the Forestry Commission, 1993; 'The red kite and Hafod', [c.1994]; and the kite article for the BTO Atlas of Migration, 1999-2002.

Original file of miscellaneous (unfiled?) papers relating to kite populations.

Original file containing correspondence relating to the donation of the Kite Committee's collections of egg shells to the National Museum of Wales, including reference to a magistrate's suggestion that two kite's eggs confiscated in Liverpool should go to Ceredigion Museum, 1981; subsequent donations, 1982-1989; research by Adrian Fowles, NCC, into the insects in kite nest faunas, 1989; a request by the Faunal Remains Unit of Southampton University Archaeology Department for kite bones, 1989-1992 ; an analysis of the components of a kite's nest, 1990; kite carcasses sent to the English Heritage Ancient Monuments Laboratory, including a copy of 'Ancient Monuments Laboratory report 22/99, A list of mammal & bird skeletons in the comparative collection of the 'Ancient Monuments Laboratory London', 1991; an analysis of clutch sizes, brood sizes, nest robberies and distribution by 10km grid squares, 1946-1997; details of unhatched etc. eggs collected, 1990-1998; and a note that all remaining kite egg shells have been sent to the National Museum, 2016.

Original file containing draft and final copies of I. Newton, D. Moss & P. E. Davis, 'Population growth and breeding of red kites in relation to landscape in Wales' (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology report to the Countryside Council for Wales), May-June 1994; 'Philopatry and population growth of red kites' by the same authors, [c.June 1994]; and covering letters.

Original file of preliminary correspondence exploring the possibility of a survey in 2000.

Original file of D. G. Sansbury of Is-y-coed, Tal-y-bont, co. Card., including annual reports on the kite's status and nesting season, 1950-1955; correspondence relating to sightings, 1951-1956; Kite Committee papers, 1950-1953; abridged translations of two German articles on the breeding habits of kites in Brandenburg, 1934, and Vogelsberg, Hesse, 1947-1950; and a file including a [David Sansbury?] kite watcher's diary, June 1949-Dec. 1952 (8 pp.), a letter of introduction for David Sansbury from H. R. H. Vaughan, 1951; a map of the kite in co. Card.; and William Condry, 'Some preliminary notes on the natural history of the red kite in Wales' (7 pp.), Easter 1950.

Original file of abstracts of kite observations, 1929-1949, from the papers of Dorothy Taunton Raikes of Bwlch, co. Brec., made after her death by Peter Davis, 1976 (Nature Conservancy Council copy). Also correspondence between Morrey Salmon and Peter Davis, 1976-1977, mainly relating to Salmon's 1977 addenda to his 1971 'A history of the kite' (A 6 above).

Original file of e-mails, extracts, letters, lists, memoranda, drafts and photocopies of articles etc., including the death of Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, 1985; an English translation of the section on red kites from W. Miall Jones's unpublished manuscript 'Adar gogledd Ceredigion', c.1944; list of letters re. kites in the Condry correspondence file, 1948-1963, and the 'dead' RSPB kite file, 1958-1968 (now C 1-3 below); a draft of Peter Davis's obituary for R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); an obituary to Frances Evans, who started a kite feeding station at Tyndomen, Tregaron (Cambrian News, 19 March 2009); and extracts from papers at NLW and the Carm. CRO.