LETTER XLIII. 



To the same. 



PAIR of honey-buzzards, Euteo apivorus, Linn.> 

 she vespivorus Ran? built them a large shallow 

 nest, composed 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 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 



1 The honey-buzzard is a very rare British bird. White is almost th c 

 only authority for any but an insect diet on its part. Most of the specie 8 

 undoubtedly live on the grubs and pupae of wasps and bees. ED. 



