Obs. rare1. [Of obscure origin; prob. an erroneous form.

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  Not for WASP-KITE, as that word (if genuine) denotes a bird of the Old World.]

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  Given by Izaak Walton as the name of a long-winged hawk, native of Virginia.

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1655.  Walton, Angler, i. (1661), 13. [List of long-winged hawks.] The Waskite from Virginia.

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