OF SELBORNE. 137 
The celebrated zigzag up the Coryarich must not 
be passsd over. Moll takes notice off Hamilton 
and Drumlanrig, and such capital houses; but a 
new survey, no doubt, should represent every seat 
and castle remarkable for any great event, or cele- 
brated for its paintings, &c. Lord Bredalbane’s 
seat and beautiful policy are too curious and extra- 
ordinary to be omitted. 
The seat of the Ear] of Eglintoun, near Glasgow, 
is worthy of notice. The pine plantations of that 
nobleman are very grand and extensive indeed. 
LETTER. XLIIl. 
A pair of honey-buzzards, buteo aprvorus, sive 
vespivorus, Raii, built them a large shallow nest, 
composed of twigs, and lined with dead beechen 
leaves, upon a tall, slender beech, near the middle 
of Selborne Hanger, in the summer of 1780. In 
the middle of the month of June a bold boy climbed 
this tree, though standing on so steep and dizzy a 
situation, and brought down an egg, the only one 
in the nest, which had been sat on for some time. 
The egg was smaller, and not so round as those of 
the common buzzard; was dotted at each end with 
small red spots, and surrounded in the middle with 
a broad bloody zone. 
The hen-bird was shot, and answered exactly to 
Mr. Ray’s description of that species: hada black 
cere, short, thick legs, and a long tail. When on 
the wing, this species may be easily distinguished 
from the common buzzard by its hawklike appear- 
ance, small head, wings not so blunt, and no longer 
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