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on which it lays wool to receive its eggs. He saw one 

 that took possession of an old kite's nest to breed in, 

 and that fed its young with the larvse of wasps, for in 

 the nest were found the combs of wasps' nests, and, in 

 the stomachs of the young, fragments of wasp-maggots. 

 In the nest were two young ones, covered with white 

 down, spotted with black. In the crop of one of them 

 were two lizards entire, with their heads lying towards 

 the mouth, as if they sought to creep out. 



It would be highly interesting could we discover the 

 manner in which this bird conducts its attack on a 

 wasps' nest. The close feathering round the base of the 

 bill, is, no doubt, a protection against the stings of the 

 insects which they attack. 



THE GOSHAWK, (Fako, or Astwr palumbarim,) 



BREEDS in lofty trees in Scotland, and destroys a great 

 quantity of small game, which he seizes with his sharp 

 and crooked talons, and carries to his nest. He is of the 

 hawk tribe, and somewhat larger than the common 

 buzzard ; his bill is blue, and he has a white stripe 

 over each eye, and also a large white spot on each side 

 of the neck. The general colour of the plumage is deep 

 brown ; the breast and belly white, transversely streaked 

 with black ; and the legs yellow. Buffon, who brought 

 up two young Goshawks, a male and a female, makes 



