NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. Ill 
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HONEY BUZZARD, 
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A PAIR of honey-buzzards, Buteo opivorus, sive Vespivorus Rai, 
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 
* The honey-buzzard is a rare bird in Great Britain, and extends chiefly along the east 
coast to the south of Scotland, where we have known a few specimens to have been 
killed ; its manner of breeding and habits during that time have not again been observed. 
With the exception of what is stated above by Mr. White all the observations that have 
been made upon their food have tended to show that it was almost entirely insectivorous. 
