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 HI'TKO VIJLGAKIS. (fi.rm.) 



Common Buzzard. 



The Common Buzzard is now, liki- all our larger birds of 

 prey, driven to seek shelter in a few of the more extensive 

 woods, far from which it is rarely seen ; its nest is built in 

 trees, of sticks, lined with a quantity of wool, fur, and such 

 like materials ; its eggs, which are three or four in numbei, 

 vary much according to the age of the bird, being sometimes 

 entirely spotless. The beautifully marked one, here figured, 

 is from the collection of Mr. R. R. Wingate, who had {he 

 eggs brought him from the same place for some years, and, 

 no doubt, the produce of the same bird ; the first year they 

 were white, or nearly so, the second, slightly marked with a 

 dirty indistinct yellowish brown, increasing each year in in- 

 tensity, till they assumed the beautiful colouring of the 

 Plate ; the spots are mostly larger and lighter, and the sur- 

 face of the egg is smeared here and there with indistinct co- 

 lourinir. 



