I20 BUZZARD. 



[Circus cineraceus — Montagu's Harrier.] 

 An irregular autumn migrant in the Eastern Counties. 



Genus— BUTEO. 

 BUTEO VULGARIS— Buzzard. 



This have I herd ofte in seiyng 

 That man ne may for no dauntyng, 

 Make a Sperhauke of a Bosarde. 



Chauceii — The Romaunt of the Rose. 



Above the rest 

 The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best : 

 Of small renown, 'tis true, for, not to lie, 

 We call him but a Hawk by courtesy. 



Dkyden — Hind and Panther. 



God save Kins: Buzzard was the general cry, 

 A portly prince and goodly to the sight ; 

 He seemed a son of Anak from his height, 

 Like those whom stature did to crowns prefer; 

 Black-brow'd and bluff, like Homer's Jupiter. 



DuYDEN— fi"t;icZ and Panther. 



He'd prove a Buzzard is no fowl, 

 And that a lord may be an owl. 



Butler— ^ucZitras. 



The monarch bird, with blythness hiird. 

 The chanting litil silvan byrd, 

 Calit up a Buzart, quha was then 

 His favorite and chamberlane. 



The Buzzard is the least rare of the large Hawks. It was 

 formerly to be met with in all the large woods of the county. 

 " About fifteen years ago," says the Rev. Clement Ley, *' I have 

 seen six Buzzards soaring together over the Doward wood, and 

 have seldom visited the Doward without seeing some of them." 

 It bred in that wood, Mr. W. C. Blake says, in 1881. It has 

 been noticed almost annually at Bishopswood, and more rarely 

 at Penyard Wood, near Ross; a fine specimen was trapped on 

 the Leys estate, in March, 1883, and its partner was seen in the 

 neighbourhood; another was shot this summer (1884) at 

 Peterchurch. 



A Buzzard was shot on a farm at Grove Common, Sellack, in 



