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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



The celebrated zigzag up the Coryarich must not be passed 

 over. Moll takes notice of 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 celebrated 

 for its paintings, etc. Lord Breadalbane's seat and beautiful 

 policy are too curious and extraordinary to be omitted. 



The seat of the Earl of Eglingtoun, near Glasgow, is worthy of 

 notice. The pine plantations of that nobleman are very grand 

 and extensive indeed. 



I am, etc. 



LETTER XLIII. 



A PAIR of honey-buzzards, Buteo opivorus, sive Vespivorus Rait, 



built them a large 

 shallow nest, com- 

 posed 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 



THE SPARROW-HAWK (Accifiter nisus). 



only one in the nest, 

 which had been sat 

 on for some time, and 



contained the embryo of a. young bird. The egg was smaller, and 

 not so round as those of the common buzzard ; was dotted at 



