NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Sub-family c. Buteonincs. (Lat. Butco, a Buzzard.) 



BUTEO. 



Vulgaris (Lat. common], the Buzzard. 



It generally builds in high trees, but lias been known to 

 make its nest among rocks. Its eggs are usually three in 

 number, of a whitish colour, spotted with pale brown, and 

 almost devoid of the peculiar red tinge that generally charac- 

 terises the eggs of the diurnal birds of prey. The length of 

 this bird is from twenty to twenty-two inches : the fourth pri- 

 mary feather is the longest. 



THE H03TEY BUZZARD. 



The genus Pernis is distinguished by the feathered lorum 

 or band round the eyes. The HONEY BUZZARD is found in the 

 warmer parts of Europe, and in Asia, seldom visiting our 

 shores. Its food does not consist of honey, as its name might 

 seem to indicate, but of bees, wasps, and their larvae. In the 

 stomach of one that was shot in Scotland, a great number of 



