V. BUZZ A ED. 



(Buteo vulgaris.} 



THIS large Hawk is not uncommon here. From its size and broad- 

 tipped wings it might almost be mistaken for an Eagle when soaring 

 at a distance. Those in the illustration were got from a nest near 

 here. It was in a rocky bank, not very difficult of access, rudely 

 constructed of sticks, and containing three young ones, and with 

 remains of hill hares and scraps of small lambs lying about it, 

 rather dirty, and with a powerful smell, which I had to endure 

 while I made a drawing of the nest on the spot. 



Buzzards are sometimes erroneously called " Kites." I have 

 never seen the really fork-tailed Kite in this country, except at 

 the Zoo. They are very numerous in Egypt, and very tame and 

 bold. They are very fond of fish. I have seen them hovering 

 over fishermen who were netting a small canal, and trying to 

 snatch the fish from them. The Glead is another name for the 

 Kite, also for the Buzzard. Shakespeare calls it the Puttock in 

 " Henry VI." : 



" Who finds the Partridge in the Puttock's nest, 

 But may imagine how the bird was dead, 

 Although the Kite soar with unbloodied beak ? " 



THE KITE. "Yelmane (a man disguised as an Amazon) sought 

 occasion to speak with Philoclea, Basilius with Yelmane, and 

 Gynecia hindered them all. If Philoclea happened to sigh, and 

 sigh she did often, as if that sigh were to be waited on, Yelmane 

 sighed also, whereto Basilius and Gynecia soon made up four 

 parts of sorrow. Therefore she endeavoured to beguile them 

 with country sports, with the bow and the angle ; and now she 

 brought a seeled Dove, who, the blinder she was, the higher she 



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