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the presence of the shy creatures which, driven from more sheltered asylums, seek to continue 
their race among beetling scaurs and desolate uplands. The Buzzard—where does she nestle 
upon her prettily blotched eggs? Far away among the shadows of the pathless hills, where 
the muirfowl crows unheeded, where the red deer hinds file along the mountain side, and 
the fox creeps through the loose screes, intent upon surprising the blue hare that 
crouches in the heather in short-lived security. The male Buzzard sweeps through the 
adjacent strath, or challenges his mate to soar aloft in his company, circling round with 
the least possible expenditure of exertion. When one of a pair is killed, the survivor 
wails in loneliness among the passes of the hills until time heals its sorrow by 
providing a new mate. Day after day the freshly united couple may be seen hunting in 
company, but they will most likely defer further nesting plans to another spring. If they 
succeed in escaping the tender attentions of the inveterate egg-collector, you may enjoy 
the evolutions of the whole family, until the approach of autumn tempts the young 
birds to wander to fresh districts. But the old birds will remain year after year in their 
accustomed haunts, nesting in one or other of their ancestral eyries ; and at other times coming 
in to roost just before dusk in their favourite niches among the crags. A wild, free life is 
that of the Buzzard, ever gliding through the air in easy circles, or poised upon the projecting 
pinnacle of some sea-washed precipice. Why should the charm of its fine presence be with- 
drawn from the mountain or the lonely island-shore, seeing that it is.harmless to game, and a 
friend to the hard-pressed agriculturist ? Game preservers have nothing to gain by effecting 
or permitting its extermination. The world is the poorer for every Buzzard that yields up 
its innocent life in the keeper’s trap. 
Nore.—How fully the utility of the Buzzard is understood in Germany is evidenced by 
the title it bears, ‘‘ Der Mause Bussard”’: anglice, the Mouse Buzzard.—Ep. 
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