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Temminck as rare as in England. Its flight is 
easy and graceful, though low, for it seldom flies 
except from one tree to another, its deficiency in 
this respect beg compensated for by the speed 
with which it runs along the ground, its motion, 
which is like that of our common fowls, being 
very fast. It builds its nest in lofty trees, forming 
it of twigs, &c., and lining it with wool and other 
suitable materials. Its eggs, generally two in 
number, are blotched with a faint and deep red 
on a paler ground, The author has a pair of these 
birds/with their eggs, killed in the New Forest a 
few years since. 
BUZZARD, ROUGH-LEGGED. 
Fatco tagopus, Zemim. 
This species, which is much rarer than the Com- 
mon Buzzard, inhabits the North of Europe, and 
is scattered southward over that Continent to the 
shores of the Mediterranean. It is found also in 
the United States and in Africa. In this country 
it is usually observed in the spring and autumn, 
when it changes its latitude from south to north, 
or vice versa. It goes northward to breed, flying 
slowly on its passage, during which it may be ob- 
served sitting for a long time on the boughs of a 
tree, watching for mice, frogs, &c., or skimming 
over swampy ground, and hunting for its prey by 
