1 8 BIRD BIOGRAPHIES 



with their trees and hedges ; but in all 

 these spots we came across the " little 

 Eagle of the hills," and in a walk of 

 twenty-five miles we saw in one day 

 thirty different Buzzards, and found them 

 nesting in places varying from a bare 

 ledge only one hundred feet from the 

 summit of a mountain over two thousand 

 feet in height, to the branches of a 

 weather-beaten oak, within two miles of 

 a busy town. Over this great tract of 

 country the Buzzards roam, as safe from 

 molestation as if they were in captivity, 

 that is, as far as they themselves are 

 concerned, but their nests are often robbed, 

 and a few years ago a certain collector 

 did his utmost or so it seemed to destroy 

 the Buzzards by taking every egg he came 

 across, but thanks to the action taken by 

 a few bird-lovers, he was turned out of 

 the Principality and forbidden by several 

 landowners to again set foot upon their 

 property. Although a few nests are still 



