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larger end. While a smaller bird than the preceding species, 
the eges are larger and measure 2.99x1.99. There is no 
doubt but what they are a most useful and economic bird. 
From the south side of Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads 
and James River, they become more numerous, often a tall 
dead tree having from three to a dozen sitting on it during 
the early morning, sunning or drying themselves; with 
wings outstretched. It was once reported to me that these 
“Black Buzzards took newborn pigs from out the pen,” 
but I am still rather skeptical about such an_ act, 
as in this case I knew of a Bald Eagle building on the 
man’s farm, and when more closely questioning him, made 
him admit it might have been a young, or immature, 
colored eagle that tuok his pigs. They are now also 
abundant in Rockingham County. 
