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COMMON BUZZARD. ClassIL 



54. Buz- 

 zard. 



Le Bufc, ou Bufard. Belon 



a-v. 1 00. 

 Butco. Gefner. av. 46. 

 Bufliarda Turnen. 

 Buteo, feu Triorches. Ald.a'v. 



I. 190. 

 Triorches, Buteo. Plinii lib. 



X. c. 7. 

 Rail fyn, wv, 1 6. 

 Common BuzzardjOrPuttock. 



Wil. orn, 70. 



Wald Geyer. Kram. 329. 

 Falco butco. Z,/;/. Jyfi. 127. 

 Quidfogel. Faun. Suec./p. 60. 

 La Bufe. Brijfon av. I. 406, 



Hiji. d'Oys. I. 206. 

 Pojana. Zinan. 85. Scopoli. 



No. 4. 

 Br. Zool. 66. Tab, A. 3. PL 



Enl. 419. 

 Oerne Falk. Brunnich p. 5. 



THIS bird is the commoneft: of the hawk 

 kind .we have in England. |t breeds in 

 large woods, and ufually builds on an old crow's 

 neft, which it enlarges and lines with wool, and 

 other foft materials : it lays two or three eggs, 

 which are fometimes wholly white ; fometimes fpot- 

 ted with yellow. The cock buzzard will hatch and 

 bring up the young, if the hen is killed*. The 

 young confort with the old ones for fome little 

 time after they quit the neft; which is not ufual 

 with other birds of prey, who always drive away 

 their brood as foon as they can fly. This fpecies is 

 very fluggifh and inadive ; and is much lefs in mo- 

 tion than other hawks, remaining perched on the 

 fame bough for the greateft part of the day, and 

 is found at mod: times near the fame place-. It 

 feeds on birds, rabbets, moles and mice-, it will 

 alfo eat frogs, earth-worms and infetls. 



* Ray^s Letters. 352. 



This 



